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Lyft employees have been spying on riders. Looks like Uber's evilness is catching on.
Lyft employee: “Hell yes. I definitely looked at my friends’ rider history and looked at what drivers said about them. I never got in trouble.”
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Will these Tech Companies not learn?
Remember the FitBit apology? The company tracking people's sex behaviors and patterns at night?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2011/07/05/fitbit-moves-quickly-after-users-sex-stats-exposed/#339a43814327
Very much reminds me of the infamous blog post by Susan Fowler on her life at Uber.
Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber
The problem is these employees have this power in the first place. You can't expect an average joe employee to simply not use whatever power he/she has.
Right... this is on lyft IMO
Calm the eff down everyone. There is no HIPPA on transactions captured by Lyft, right? Is this REALLY that big of a deal? Sure, privacy and all that, but can't literally every other company where the data isn't protected by HIPPA has employees that can view all the rows in the database?
This is exactly the problem with these tech companies. They don't know what to do with the power they have. Yes, you actually make a good point that hundreds of CSRs at Amazon can look at your purchasing behaviors, which arguably violates your privacy. Then again, Lyft and Apple with its GPS are tracking people's eact locations. That, I feel, crosses the line a bit.
Yeah, but what about these? There's no way this is legit. Legal? I have no idea. Not a lawyer.
So much for anonymous reviews.
Is that what this employee was doing? Checking driver reviews and making fun of the dude?
Lyft has a God View too? I am starting to think that maybe Lyft is jsut as bad as Uber but they are just better at covering their tracks...
They are all people. You know how we all talk about drivers working for multiple companies like Uber and Lyft? Back-office employees are the same people. One can claim Lyft has better culture and values and all that, but at the end of the day, some 23 year old brat would do something stupid trying ot impress his friends.
This was just yesterday. Fitness app reveals SECRET US MILITARY LOCATIONS
http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/29/technology/strava-privacy-data-exposed/
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who spies on their friends like that... I mean, just because you can doesn't mean you should.
Coz it's funny. Friends giving each other a hard time. Sometimes, when people have power and access to restricted information, they want to show off.