Uber is “rolling back the decision to collect post-trip location for all riders,” company spokeswoman Melanie Ensign said. Uber asked all its app users for permission to collect the post-trip location data, but it actually collected that data only from those with Android devices, Ensign said. The “always” option will soon change to specify that data collection will stop once a trip ends or is canceled, Uber said. When Uber updated its privacy policy in 2015 to allow for such tracking, the Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission. The policy change on collecting rider location data comes shortly after Uber picked Dara Khosrowshahi, chief executive of travel booking website Expedia, to take over as Uber’s chief executive.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 29, 2017 16:53 UTC