I picked up a pax today and he commented that his Uber app had just displayed a message saying "Your driver is from Canada". He then showed me his app display and sure enough it did say "Your driver is from Canada".
I was wondering how Uber came by this information. I did, indeed, spend much of my youth in Canada, but I haven't lived there in 31 years. I don't recall mentioning anything about Canada when I applied to drive for Uber. Moreover the background checks Uber ran only looked back to about the last 10 years of (solely US) history--they didn't look back nearly far enough to my Canadian days. Moreover although I spent much of my youth in Canada, I wasn't born in Canada, so if I ever provided my place of birth (I can't recall if I did) they wouldn't be getting the Canada stuff from there.
Has anyone else had something similar--or any other random information about them--pop up like this in a passenger app? It is not a secret that I have lived in Canada, but it also not something I'd expect their software to easily turn up. And if their AI is advanced enough to figure out my Canadian background from 30+ years ago, then they probably know other stuff about me I would NOT be comfortable having revealed to a random pax.
Plus, Canada is generally not considered the most controversial country in the world, but in today's politically charged climate I could see there being drivers who might come from countries where they would NOT want their past residency revealed to random pax.
I was wondering how Uber came by this information. I did, indeed, spend much of my youth in Canada, but I haven't lived there in 31 years. I don't recall mentioning anything about Canada when I applied to drive for Uber. Moreover the background checks Uber ran only looked back to about the last 10 years of (solely US) history--they didn't look back nearly far enough to my Canadian days. Moreover although I spent much of my youth in Canada, I wasn't born in Canada, so if I ever provided my place of birth (I can't recall if I did) they wouldn't be getting the Canada stuff from there.
Has anyone else had something similar--or any other random information about them--pop up like this in a passenger app? It is not a secret that I have lived in Canada, but it also not something I'd expect their software to easily turn up. And if their AI is advanced enough to figure out my Canadian background from 30+ years ago, then they probably know other stuff about me I would NOT be comfortable having revealed to a random pax.
Plus, Canada is generally not considered the most controversial country in the world, but in today's politically charged climate I could see there being drivers who might come from countries where they would NOT want their past residency revealed to random pax.
