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>I suppose Uber could validate the GPS position of the driver and my phone and use that to validate my story, but I doubt they went through all that trouble :(

For that, I assume they would need to have tools built for that specific purpose, with security/audit in place. I doubt any support guy could just randomly query for GPS data for drivers/users.




> I doubt any support guy could just randomly query for GPS data for drivers/users.

There was a very widely publicised case a few years back when their support people were doing just this to stalk celebrities and exes. How quickly the world moves on, I guess.




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