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Why Uber’s long PR nightmare will end in a user privacy win

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Uber is in advanced-stage damage control mode to prove to the world that it actually cares about your privacy, but it’s going to be an uphill battle. The
    good news for you: The end result will be a strict privacy policy crafted by a company so scared of running afoul of regulators and potential users that it
    will elevate standards for the entire industry.</p><figure class="medium right">
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Uber’s public relations crisis (http://www.macworld.com/article/2848628/why-you-should-delete-uber-and-what-to-use-instead.html), which began with an executive threatening to investigate a journalist’s private life in retaliation for a critical column, has snowballed into a user
  privacy debacle that has even Sen. Al Franken raising questions (http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/11/al-franken-uber-travis-kalanick).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2850884/why-uber-s-long-pr-nightmare-will-end-in-a-user-privacy-win.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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