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This establishes a specific restriction on real-time trip data use for ad targeting, which is a meaningful limit on how live user activity data can be exploited commercially.
Interpretive note: The excerpt names this practice in a way that strongly implies it is a restriction (a practice Uber does not engage in), but the exact framing of the surrounding clause is not quoted. The excerpt may be part of a list of prohibited or non-practised activities. Confidence is medium because the full sentence structure establishing whether this is a prohibition or a description of non-practice is not present in the excerpt.
Your current trip details, request time, and services requested cannot be used by Uber to target ads to you.
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These features enable us to use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick advertising cookie) or other third-party cookies together to inform, optimize, and display ads based on your past visits to the Services.
If you enable location data for the mobile version of our services...we may use your location data to serve you geo-targeted ads for employers and other advertisers that are local to you.
we may share, or permit third party online advertising networks and other third-party services, to collect, information about your use of our Services over time so that they may display ads that may be relevant to your interests...
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"Displaying ads that are targeted based on data about your current trip or delivery request, including time of request and services requested. For example, if you request a trip to a supermarket...— Excerpt from Uber's Uber Privacy Notice
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This establishes a specific restriction on real-time trip data use for ad targeting, which is a meaningful limit on how live user activity data can be exploited commercially.
Your current trip details, request time, and services requested cannot be used by Uber to target ads to you.
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