Originally Posted by davie355

I got a ride home tonight from a driver who really straddled between friendly and overly personal, asking whether I lived by myself, asking which apartment building was mine after we arrived and pulled over to the curb.

This made me think... is there a privacy problem with entering one's actual home address in the Uber/Lyft apps?

On the one hand I'd think a fake address is more secure, on the other hand, there are very few reported incidents of drivers stalking passengers. So if I put in a fake dropoff and walk from there to my home late at night, the probability of running into crime on the street may be larger than the probability of anything nefarious resulting from the driver knowing where I live.