Uber Says Only Some Employees Have Access to 'God View'The tool was also shown to some third parties in a presentation view, the on-demand car service said.

Taxi service provider Uber Technologies Inc said only some of its employees have access to "God View", or a real-time aerial view of the movement of its cars.

The tool is available only to "employees working in operations or other areas, like fraud prevention," the company said in a letter to Minnesota Senator Al Franken.

The tool was also shown to some third parties in a "presentation" view, Uber said.

Franken, chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, said he was concerned about Uber's "surprising lack of detail".

"I believe Americans have a fundamental right to privacy, and that right includes the ability to control who is getting your personal location information and who it's being shared with."

这位参议员曾要求超级上个月解释how it uses the real-time vehicle tracking tool in its app. (1.usa.gov/1xEkS2k)

Uber was not immediately available for comment.

(Reporting By Subrat Patnaik in Bengaluru; Editing by Joyjeet Das)