Now, riders can continue to share links to the maps, but the links will expire after 48 hours.

“Share my ETA” on Uber is an easy way to keep friends and family in the loop on where you are and when you’re supposed to arrive at your destination.

The map appears just as it might during the actual ride for the driver and rider on their smartphones.

It’s only when this link is posted publicly on a site that is cached by Google that it appears in the search results.

“Protection of user data is critically important to us and we are always looking for ways to make it even more secure”. The ETA was sent through an SMS.

An Uber representative says that the only way for this information to come up in a Google search is for the rider to have deliberately shared it on social media. The private info of many Uber customers could be accessed through Google.

Those revelations might raise new privacy concerns among some Uber users. Uber chief security officer Joe Sullivan announced the change in a tweet on Friday. The glitch was a side-effect of Uber’s “Share my ETA” feature, launched in 2013, which allows users to show others the progress of their trip.

But even though the links may have been deliberately shared online, users likely were not aware that they would contain sensitive data in the source code, or that anyone could find them through Google.

Uber has been subjected to criticisms and questions over privacy and its user data policies.

After choosing “Share my ETA” in the Uber app, the user would get a shareable link that opened up a map of the journey, the final destination and how long it would take to reach it, and information on the driver themselves. However, the data did not include credit card numbers of Uber passengers.