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Saying that Uber has found itself in some hot water lately might be a bit of an understatement.
The ride-hailing company has been embroiled in scandal after scandal recently, with a new one coming to light over the weekend. This one involves Uber deliberately trying to track iPhones and dupe Apple about it. So what happened?
In IT Blogwatch, we go for a ride.
So what is going on? Steven Musil has the background:
Apple takes the privacy of its iPhone users very seriously...So it was understandable that Uber CEO Travis Kalanick might have been...anxious before a 2015 meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook.
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The reason? Kalanick had been directing his engineers to camouflage a feature...that allowed Uber to secretly identify and tag iPhone users, even after the app had been deleted from users' phones.
Well, that doesn't sound too good for Uber. But why was the the company doing that? JC Torres has that info:
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