Editor’s Note: It’s not only hackers that are a threat to privacy. See the Gizmag article Uber’s Android app caught reporting data back without permission. Uber only recently took down their blog post discussed in this 2012 GIGOM article, The one-night stand, quantified and visualized by Uber.
From: The Washington Post
Before #Ubergate recedes entirely from the news, let’s pause on one aspect of the story that hasn’t gotten much attention so far: the cybersecurity risk of collecting massive troves of private travel information in online databases.
Imagine for a second that your job is to gather intelligence on government officials in Washington, or financiers in London, or entrepreneurs in San Francisco. Imagine further that there existed a database that collected daily travel information on such people with GPS-quality precision– where they went, when they went there and who else went to those same places at the same times.
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