The software was able to see how many Lyft drivers were available for passengers, where they were and which of them worked for both Lyft and Uber.
From 2014 through to early 2016, Uber was using a secret program to track its competition, according to a new report from The Information. Called “Hell,” it involved the use of software that used fake passenger accounts, spoofing their location to find about the eight nearby available Lyft drivers, the report says, citing an anonymous source who was involved in the program. By spreading these spoofed accounts out in a grid, Uber could see almost an entire city.
