Uber Broadens Rider Privacy Policy, Asks for New Permissions

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Uber Technologies Inc.’s new privacy policy released Thursday is shorter, easier to read and more expansive than before.

The car booking company now more clearly tells its customers it can pretty much track everything they do while using the Uber app, after facing criticism over privacy, especially its use of a tool called God View enabling the company to know where its riders were at any given moment.