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Uber stores the route of your trip anyway.

So all info you withhold from them is the few meters walk from where you ordered to where you got picked up.

Well of course and you make a fine point, but I don't know what the app is up to when I'm not using it. And there was also the fiasco of them tracking after rides were completed [1].

I suppose what it comes down to is that we pour huge amounts of information into our phones and by extension, companies that don't necessarily have our best interests at heart, and any steps I can take to ameliorate that without a huge trade-off of inconvenience, I am all about doing. I don't know what my data will be worth in a few years!

[1] - https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/29/16219542/uber-location-tr...

OK, the "you never know factor" is hard to argue against.

Probably stored indefinitely. Imagine 30 years from now, a company being able to go back and check on the current president's ride history when he was in his 20s.

This is exactly what I think, but I doubt I'd have articulated it so well. Who knows where that road leads?

> Imagine 30 years from now, a company

Not just a company, the current state of things is every private company database will be hacked and leaked and available to the general public.

Treat all data you give to someone else as public data now and use fake info where ever possible.

You also withhold from them all of the extra shit it collects in the background when you're done with your ride.

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