"Uber collects your location data from the time of trip request through five minutes after the trip ends, including when the app is in the background."
From source listed in the article: https://help.uber.com/h/ba9dd342-158d-421f-a9ea-0e6c7aaad726
From source listed in the article: https://help.uber.com/h/ba9dd342-158d-421f-a9ea-0e6c7aaad726
However, on iOS at least, the latest version of the app is pretty much unusable when you do so. I did write to Uber regarding this a while back and the response was basically "Thank you. We'll forward it to the appropriate team." I suspect that they'd anything about it as the current functionality is by design more than anything else.
Unfortunately their history has proven to me that they're an utterly untrustworthy company and some lofty PR bullshit certainly won't change my opinion on them.