The big trend in tech blogging this week is deleting the Uber mobile app and then blogging about it. Look around and you’ll find dozens of bloggers declaring that they’ve joined the boycott, or finding some other way to capitalize on the company’s ongoing PR disaster.

If you’re not caught up on it yet, the latest controversy with Uber involves its apparent abuse of user data for no legitimate reason. When Buzzfeed News reporter Johana Bhuiyan showed up at Uber’s New York headquarters for a meeting, Uber’s New York general manager Josh Mohrer reportedly met her outside and told her he had been tracking her Uber ride to the office. This was two months after Mohrer had emailed Bhuiyan records of her previous Uber activity, which Bhuiyan never requested nor authorized him to access.

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