> You seem to be implying that they are violating privacy just for the heck of it.
Why not both? Why not collect all the information you possibly can, whether or not you immediately see obvious value to it, and then find ways to justify it later?
Why not both? Why not collect all the information you possibly can, whether or not you immediately see obvious value to it, and then find ways to justify it later?
Because it's non-trivial and it costs a lot of money to do that, in terms of engineers' salaries, storage, etc.
Well they _have_ raised $15,000,000,000 in cash: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/business/dealbook/why-uber...