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This should have been something that everyone saw coming, but it can be hard to imagine what's happening before it does, particularly when you yourself aren't incentivised to - companies with access to your phone through an app (and the phones of the people around you) are going to spy on you, and that data will (almost assuredly) not be secure. It's probably going to be abused. It's absolutely going to be sold.

I just went to delete my Lyft account (which I haven't used in several years), but I'm unable to do so without first accepting their new terms of service, which I don't/won't. There doesn't seem to be any means of contacting Lyft outside of their app or website, both of which require that I agree to those afore mentioned terms before contacting them. This seems illegal in at least some US jurisdictions, but

This seems foreboding of some very dangerous situations for marginalized or targeted groups in the future.




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