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Agree. In contrast, when I worked at Amazon, customer privacy was pretty religiously protected.

To access detailed customer information required getting a one-time-use key, which is generated from a request that references other documentation (bug reports, customer support requests, etc) as well as a justification.

This key would only work against a single customer, and expires after some time.

The requests themselves are regularly audited internally to prevent abuse.

This is the level of internal privacy guarantees a company like Uber needs. No employee should have unmonitored, carte blanche access to customer data.



This is the point.

The fact that the CEO can access data at whim should be very troubling. That means they don't have even the most basic infosec guidelines in place.




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