Uber integrates Snapchat into app; adds filters and friend locators

Then you type a friend’s name in the “where to?” box, and your friend gets a request from Uber to provide their location.

“To restore users’ control over their location data, I urge you to consider implementing in-app options that are distinct from operating system-level permissions”, he added. The company is now expounding even further and has added a couple of fantastic new features.

Uber, meanwhile, has hit a speed bump in its effort to use autonomous vehicles in California.

According to Uber, syncing contacts to the app is not new.

While Uber faces its ongoing debacle surrounding self-driving auto experiments in San Francisco, the ride-sharing company isn’t stopping with its innovational tools.

There are concerns about the kind of user details both Snapchat and Uber would have access to or share amongst them even though the partnership seems to be a nice development.

So, you’re trying to request an Uber to meet up with friends, but you aren’t sure of their exact location. Don’t bother your driver with crappy Snapchat-esque filters, and don’t invite your friends to use services for convenience when the companies behind them have earned their reputations for not taking privacy seriously. They will then be redirected to the Snapchat app where they will be asked to unlock the filter for a limited duration.

To check which applications have accessed your location in iOS, you can go to Setting Privacy Location Services. Uber will use that one-time, static location as the destination for the trip. A new Uber update will allow folks to mark one of their friends from their contacts as an actual destination on the map.

Once they accept, their Global Positioning System location is used as your destination. They’ll get a notification on their phone letting them know what they did to make a rider’s day. “I’ve been checking this every few days ever since Uber changed its location-checking privilege, and it has never once shown any sign of misuse”. Once they agree to share locations, they will receive another text with the estimated arrival time, and a link to a live, real-time map.