Uber was tracking people after they left their rides, and it's unsure if they ever stopped.
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/12/01/503...
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/12/01/503...
Edit: Read up a bit more on it. Turns out it was the practice of fingerprinting and tracking after re-installs, not after an uninstall. TechCrunch provided a better technical description: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/23/uber-responds-to-report-th...
So for all means continue to investigate the seemingly terrible and anti-women culture and the fraudulent stealing of Technology from Google. But like you said, don't mischaracterize other facts to make them sound more terrible than what they really are.