Uber allegedly tracked journalist with internal tool called 'God View'

Please add [2014] to the title.

This article is relevant in light of Uber now tracking passengers even after their rides are over: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13085098

It's amazing that Uber employees can write things like this with a straight face:

Uber employee here. We were told the reason to track up to 5 mins after the trip is for fraud, [...] And just as a side note, take it with a few grains of salt but I know it's not easy to just trust a company with such personal information, and certainly I wouldn't either, but Uber as a company is very ethical and takes the responsibility that we are entrusted with very seriously.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13086454

> Two ex-Uber employees told Buzzfeed News that the "God View" tool, which allows users to track both Uber vehicles and customers who have requested a car, is not open to contracted Uber drivers, but is "widely available" to those at corporate level.

Is there a legitimate reason for executives to have access to this level of personal data? I wouldn't expect a bank VP to be able to access my personal bank accounts and would (naively?) assume there were safeguards in place to prevent this kind of abuse and fraud.

On a tangent, does anyone know what GIS stack Uber uses for storing, analysing, and displaying their data?

FYI, this is a 2014 article

Again? Didn't this same thing happen with a god view and a journalist a year or two ago?