It’s still odd wording. They calculated and assigned a persistent identifier that could be (and was) used to track the device.
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Not track its movement - just identify it as a phone that had previously had the app installed.
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The difference between installing a GPS device on a car versus putting a chalk mark on the tire.
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Nice analogy
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The newer wording makes a lot more sense.
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@marciahofmann@nytimes those pesky details!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Great story!
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To be fair, I think he meant "tracking" as "keep track of device IDs" but didn't realize readers would interpret it as "tracking movement"
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Ah, I see it at end of article. All I ever saw were tweets accusing Uber of tracking users, then saw updated graph that didn't say that.
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Bandwidth on my train is too poor to let me re download the whole article, but will look later.
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