Uber has been quietly helping governments with contact tracing for months

• For months Uber has been providing health officials with data to help them with their contact tracing efforts, Reuters reports.
• The ride-sharing company has designed a portal specifically for health officials to request user data.
• The new service received 560 requests from 29 countries in the first half of 2020.
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Uber has been quietly helping health officials around the world with contact tracing, the company told Reuters.

The ride-sharing company has built a special portal for health officials to request access to rider and driver data. Uber has provided user data to officials before, for example with police departments investigating a crime. 

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