Uber is straightaway tracking you lot fifty-fifty when your ride is over, and, according to the ride-hailing company, the surveillance volition amend its service.
Uber late updated its app to collect user place information inwards the background.
So, if you lot convey updated your Uber app recently, your app's place tracking permissions convey changed, allowing the app to monitor your place before as well as 5 minutes subsequently your trip ends, fifty-fifty if you lot convey closed the app.
H5N1 popup on the Uber app volition enquire you, "Allow 'Uber' to access our place fifty-fifty when you lot are non using the app?" You tin click "Allow" or "Don't Allow" inwards answer to this request. If you lot don't permit it, Uber won't rail you.
According to the company, this information helps non exclusively drivers detect riders without making telephone calls, exactly besides Uber monitor driver service, making certain riders are picked upwardly as well as dropped off on the proper side of the street inwards club to heighten safety.
Here's what Uber said inwards a statement:
"We're ever thinking almost ways nosotros tin amend the passenger sense from sharpening our ETA estimates to identifying the best alternative upwardly place on whatever given street. Location is at the pump of the Uber experience, as well as we're asking riders to furnish us amongst to a greater extent than information to accomplish these goals."Location information during a trip is collected during the next fourth dimension periods:
- When you're interacting amongst Uber as well as the app is foregrounded as well as visible.
- When you lot are on a trip: from the fourth dimension you lot asking a trip until the trip is ended or canceled past times the driver, fifty-fifty if the app is running inwards the background, exactly non visible to you.
- Up to 5 minutes subsequently the driver ends a trip, fifty-fifty if the Uber app is closed inwards the background.
Uber announced the movement concluding twelvemonth which prompted a electrical load [PDF] amongst the Federal Trade Commission. At te time, the Electronic Privacy Information Center said that "this collection of user's information far exceeds what customers await from the shipping service."
It's unexpected from a big fellowship similar Uber "to collect place information when customers are non actively using the app." However, "the FTC failed to act, as well as Uber is straightaway tracking users non-stop."
How to Stop Uber From Tracking Your Location
If you lot are worried, there's a means to larn closed to it. The fellowship besides explains how to plough this characteristic off. Here's what to produce to closed downwards this feature:
- For Android Users: Settings → Apps → Uber → scroll to "Permission" → toggle "Location."
- For users running Android Lollipop (5.1) as well as earlier: Settings → Location → toggle Off.
- For iOS Users: Settings → Privacy → Location Services → Uber → pick out "Never."
