Comment by punnerud

In the article: "..the company can track your smartphone battery life.."

They ARE tracking my battery, all the time!

I looked into the HTTPS-trafic from the Uber-app (with MITMproxy) and it is one of the few that send my battery and charging status on a regular basis:

          "battery_status": "unplugged",
          "battery_level": 0.73,