{"id":14479,"date":"2014-12-01T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14479"},"modified":"2014-12-01T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T20:00:11","slug":"wapo-is-ubers-rider-database-a-sitting-duck-for-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14479","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Is Uber&#8217;s rider database a sitting duck for hackers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-switch\/wp\/2014\/12\/01\/is-ubers-rider-database-a-sitting-duck-for-hackers\/\">Is Uber&#8217;s rider database a sitting duck for hackers?<\/a> by Craig Timberg:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Imagine for a second that your job is to gather intelligence on government officials in Washington, or financiers in London, or entrepreneurs in San Francisco. Imagine further that there existed a database that collected daily travel information on such people with GPS-quality precision- where they went, when they went there and who else went to those same places at the same times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In light of Uber&#8217;s CEO&#8217;s comments to the press in recent weeks, what&#8217;s to stop Uber from just using the information for malicious purposes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Is Uber&#8217;s rider database a sitting duck for hackers? by Craig Timberg: Imagine for a second that your job is to gather intelligence on government officials in Washington, or financiers in London, or entrepreneurs in San Francisco. Imagine further &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14479\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informational-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14480,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14479\/revisions\/14480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}