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303space | 8 years ago

Does anyone else find this whole thing more than a bit hypocritical?

Lyft is always telling you they are the better/ethical/woke ridesharing option - now their employees are reporting a culture of abusing customer privacy. I wish they had taken a look at their own practices before running million dollar ad campaigns full of celebrities celebrating their ‘wokeness’.

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azernik|8 years ago

Uber had the kicker that invasion of privacy was a top-down policy explicitly used by management.

Lyft still done fucked up, but not to the level that Uber did.

andrestan|8 years ago

Which news story about Uber makes invasion of privacy seem like a top-down policy?

danso|8 years ago

Much of the criticism against Uber concern top-level decisions, such as the creation and use of "Greyball", or actions and decisions from Kalanick himself and other top executives. Lyft maybe deserves blame for not building better and more automated audit systems and policies after knowing that these lookups could be abused.