According to the update at the end of the article, Uber says they only used this API to render maps in an early version of their Apple watch app and they haven't been using it at all for some time. They claim they are working with Apple to get this entitlement removed.
Apple letting a (morally corrupt) third party violate your privacy.<p>And some people still think the government/NSA does somehow not have complete access to your data?
Stuff like that is a bit at odds with the pro-privacy marketing that Apple has been pushing recently. Guess it shows how important certain high-profile apps are for smartphone ecosystems when Uber even got Apple to give them access to features like that.
I just uninstalled it. I do too many confidential things on my phone to even let this be a possibility. That's too bad because I was an avid Uber user. I hope they can shed some light on this and say it's fixed (and verified).
On a similar topic, how does the facebook app on android suggest me pictures taken with the camera on the phone, when neither it nor any of the facebook infrastructure apps have any permissions on accessing local media?
For the first time I tried to install the Uber app last weekend when I needed a taxi in a country where Uber is present.<p>I then found out that the Uber iOS app is larger than 150MB (!).<p>I couldn't come up with a reason why the App would need to be that ridiculously huge except for spying frameworks so I did not download it. There were taxis waiting less than 30m away anyway.<p>I'm glad I have not sold my soul to Uber ;-)