The exact same risk exists within all of these businesses, but generally with far weaker internal controls than in the government. In practice, people within the NSA were accessing the big national databases to look up information on current or former partners, celebrities, etc. Signals intelligence is called “SIGINT”, human intelligence is called “HUMINT”, so intelligence about friends and lovers was called “LOVEINT”. Last year there was a scandal within the NSA about a practice called “LOVEINT”. We give sensitive personal information to these companies in order to allow them to provide the services that we want, but we are also trusting them to treat the data appropriately. While Uber is the company that got caught, the potential for this kind of abuse exists in a tremendous number of businesses. Obviously such information must exist within the Uber systems for them to operate their business, but this access for personal or inappropriate business purposes is very worrying, possibly putting the security of customers at risk. Next Emil Michael, SVP of business for Uber, talked at a private dinner about the possibility of using the information Uber has about hostile reporters to gather dirt on them.Īpparently Uber has an internal tool called “God View” which is fairly widely available to employees and allows tracking of any car or customer. In two separate cases recently Uber has, or has talked about, abusing its information about their customer’s movements.įirst a Buzzed reporter Johana Bhuiyan was told that she was tracked on the way to a meeting by Josh Mohrer, general manager of Uber New York.
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