Uber is turning off a surveillance feature that enabled the ride-hailing company to track customers even after their rides had ended.

The company last year began tracking customers from the time they requested a ride until five minutes after it was over. The surveillance strategy, Uber said at the time, would allow Uber to analyze whether people were being dropped off and picked up properly—like on the correct side of the street.

That five minutes of post-ride monitoring is being discontinued first with an update to the iOS app this week, and was abandoned months ago for Android devices. An Uber spokeswoman tells Ars that Uber "never collected" post-ride data on iOS devices.

The development comes days after Uber's board picked Dara Khosrowshahi as its new chief executive. Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Expedia, is replacing Travis Kalanick, who resigned under pressure after a bruising investigation into Uber's toxic corporate culture.

Meanwhile, Uber's chief security officer, Joe Sullivan, told Reuters that the privacy tracking changes are unrelated to the new chief executive shakeup.

"We’ve been building through the turmoil and challenges because we already had our mandate," he said.

When Uber implemented the new tracking feature in December, it did so with consent from riders. A pop-up on the mobile app informed riders of the plan and gave them the ability to opt out. "Allow 'Uber' to access your location even when you are not using the app?" the message read.

Opting out, however, required riders to manually type in their pickup and drop-off locations.