Uber is in the data collection business:

Like I said before, there’s a lot of data here to go through. Maybe Uber evil. Maybe Uber isn’t sending a bunch of data off to their collection servers for harvesting. Maybe I’m just paranoid.

Stay tuned for my next post, its gonna be good. I know I said that last time, but this is more of a blog post than an actual post.

Two posts by Liz Gannes along the same lines:

1. Uber under fire for Android permission requests...

http://recode.net/2014/11/26/uber-under-fire-for-android-permissions/

2. Investors say "Damn Ubergate, full steam ahead!"

http://recode.net/2014/11/23/investors-damn-ubergate-and-full-speed-ahead-with-mega-funding/

http://www.gironsec.com/blog/2014/11/what-the-hell-uber-uncool-bro

For some reason I couldn't get the url to stick to the pic.

It sticks; it's where I found the quote above.

In the comments I found this link:

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2014/11/27/ubers-app-malware-despite-may-read/

And Hacker News comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8660336