Uber vs McAfee

Uber tracks everywhere you go, records your calls, photographs your face, and buys demographic profiles from data brokers — then feeds all of it into a vast advertising machine that includes Meta and TikTok. You can limit some collection but you can't use the service without surrendering your location and trip history for up to seven years.

McAfee is a broad consumer security suite that necessarily collects significant data — including email content for AI scam detection, financial account login credentials for transaction monitoring, and SSN/credit card numbers for identity monitoring — and shares contact and commercial information with advertising partners; its CCPA transparency table is unusually specific and confirms browsing and network activity are not shared for advertising, the VPN explicitly avoids logging originating IPs or DNS queries, and CCPA request metrics are published, but the overall collection scope is extensive, retention is vague, and no security certifications are named in the main policy.