Ask HN: Uber illegally tracking European users? Located in Europe. I uninstalled the Uber app from an iPhone (thus erasing the app and all its documents) and restarted the iPhone. I then went to the website and deleted the account entirely I wanted to double check that Uber had properly deleted the account. I reinstalled the app, which opens on the sign up page, and clickd at the bottom "Find my account". Suprise! (or not) Uber recalled exactly my account. I tried to swap the sim and change the wifi, it still did the same. The phone has no personalized ad enabled (so does not send an IDFA). I deleted other apps from the same Team ID (Uber Eat). The only legit way to "track" a device, as far as I know, is DeviceCheck's DCDevice. But this only stores 2 bits, certainly all the info Uber had. It's painfully hard to escape BigTech's surveillance... Hence my question: Is Uber illegally tracking devices, and if so anyone has ideas how? |