Uber explains why app appears to continue tracking your location; other apps affected too

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Uber explains why app appears to continue tracking your location; other apps affected too

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<p>Following reports that the <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/uber/" target="_blank">Uber[/url] app appears to be tracking customer locations <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/22/uber-location-tracking-five-minutes/" target="_blank">days or even weeks[/url] after their last ride, the company has issued an explanation. That statement also explains who some users were seeing the behavior while others weren’t.</p>
<p>The company says that it is not the app which is accessing location data, but rather the iOS Maps extension that some have chosen to activate …</p>
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