«Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from Uber Technologies Inc., a massive breach that the company concealed for more than a year. This week, the ride-hailing firm ousted its chief security officer and one of his deputies for their roles in keeping the hack under wraps, which included a $100,000 payment to the attackers.»
via Bloomberg
«Uber is building software to manage networks in the sky of flying taxis and working with manufacturers including Aurora Flight Sciences, which was acquired by Boeing last month».
Source : Uber in deal with NASA to build flying taxi air control software
« Numéro deux aux Etats-Unis, la plate-forme de voitures avec chauffeurs profite des déboires de son rival. Elle vient de lever un milliard de dollars de fonds ».
Source : The Uber Game
« It was used for an old version of the Apple Watch app, specifically to run the heavy lifting of rendering maps on your phone & then send the rendering to the Watch app. This dependency was removed with previous improvements to Apple’s OS & our app. Therefore, we’re removing this API from our iOS codebase ».
Source : Researchers: Uber’s iOS App Had Secret Permissions That Allowed It to Copy Your Phone Screen
«Quelle que soit la plate-forme, toutes cherchent à fidéliser leurs conducteurs. Les sociétés multiplient les cellules et cercles d’écoute, les services ou les incitations financières… Car après le choc d’offre, le secteur va être confronté à un choc de demande».
Source : VTC : la course aux chauffeurs
« Apps like Uber and Waze have been criticized for forcing users to grant them full access to a phone’s location status even when the app is not being used in order to operate. As we wrote last year, that raises the potential for them to quietly collect background information on users, even though Uber, for one, has played that suggestion down. Those days will soon be over for many users thanks to a new setting in iOS 11 that introduces the “While Using The App” location setting for all apps ».
Source : iOS 11 stops apps like Uber and Waze from accessing user location data at all times | TechCrunch
« Before accepting rides on his Uber app each day, Seattle driver Fasil Teka must first choose whether to listen to company-run podcasts on voting rights, collective bargaining and city council hearings. He and other drivers in the city have received text messages, meeting invites and phone surveys from ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc. in an attempt, the company says, to sway them against unionizing ».
Source : Uber Gears Up to Block Bid to Form a Union in Seattle – WSJ
Kalanick: “Some people don’t like to take responsibility for their own shit. They blame everything in their life on somebody else. Good luck!”
Kamel: “Good luck to you, but I know [you’re not] going to go far.”
Source : In Video, Uber CEO Argues With Driver Over Falling Fares – Bloomberg
« Why did Uber launch the self-driving in pilot in San Francisco if it knew it was in violation of the law? A likely scenario was that Uber didn’t want to disclose its disengagement rate — the number of times the vehicle forced the human driver to take control because it couldn’t safely navigate the conditions on the road — or any accidents to the DMV, and by extension the public ».
Source : Uber dismissed warnings about its illegal self-driving test for months, emails show – The Verge
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