Uber tells Business Insider, “Share my ETA” links will be set to expire 48 hours after they are generated. Any publicly available pages still in existence have also been wiped.
Uber has fixed a gaping privacy hole which left ride details for some passengers visible in Google searches, with full address information available even months after the journey. The glitch was a side-effect of Uber’s “Share my ETA” feature, launched in 2013, which allows users to show others the progress of their trip.
Read more: http://www.slashgear.com/uber-fixes-eta-privacy-gap-that-left-full-trip-details-public-05402217/
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