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Uber Scandal Highlights Silicon Valley’s Grown-Up Problem NY Times

A writer for San Francisco Magazine said this week that sources inside the company warned her that the company might monitor her rides. A Buzzfeed reporter wrote that when she attended a meeting with an Uber executive in New York, he was monitoring her arrival in one of the company’s cars. Add in an account by the author Peter Sims that his personal travel information was apparently shown on a wall at an Uber launch party, and the anecdotal evidence that the company has played fast and loose with its customers’ data is pretty compelling.

Big Daddy Is Watching You Uber Exec

With Anita Sarkeesian’s Reputation Under Assault, Sarah Lacy’s May Be Saved Due To Uber’s Dinner Gaffe AOC Anne’s Sensual Rebel Blog

Shailene Woodley Heats Up GQ

Crush of the Year: Shailene Woodley GQ

She is part sunlight, part rainbow, part child actor, part TED talk, part ICM agent. This is the Shailene Woodley who told a reporter she enjoys sunbathing naked to “give my vagina a little vitamin D.” People went nuts about that; it topped the lists of crazy shit that Shailene Woodley said that seemed to proliferate as 2014 went on.

Woodley uses the word ‘vagina’ a lot — which got us to wondering if the word is still banned on TV.