Uber is set to pay new fines for its 2016 data breach which compromised the personal data of millions around the world. UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) handed the ride-hailing giant a fine of 385,000 pounds ($490,760), while the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA), a 600,000...
A Missouri Uber driver named Jason Gargac recently re-ignited the discussion around privacy and ethical streaming after he was caught live-streaming passengers on Twitch using his dashboard cam. Uber and Lyft both refer to local regulation on the matter of recording riders, and it has been...
Uber internally announced this week that it has hired Ruby Zefo as its first ever Chief Privacy Officer who will be responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of privacy standards, procedures, and processes in every market that Uber operates in. Tony West, Uber's chief legal...
Silicon Valley giants Microsoft, Amazon, Uber, and Google had reportedly backed a campaign that opposes California’s Consumer Privacy Act. The tech companies had already donated thousands of dollars into the campaign. However, Facebook and Verizon eventually withdrew even after contributing $200,000. The Act seeks to...
Uber told the media this week that it is planning to provide users and drivers more privacy by slightly obscuring exact pick-up and drop-off location. The move is expected to yield a compromise between the rider’s safety concerns and driver’s need for precise logs which...
National Privacy Commission Chief Raymund Liboro assured the public last Friday that there will be no migration of personal data from Uber to Grab based their discussion with the ride-hailing company. Liboro also said that Grab will be complying with the Data Privacy Law and...
National Privacy Commissioner Raymund Enriquez Liboro said earlier this week that the sale of Uber’s Southeast Asian business to Grab will not affect their ongoing probe on the data breach that the former revealed last year. Last November, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi admitted that they did...
Last Thursday, Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) announced that breach reporting, which is included in the revisions to the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), may be tabled in the Parliament around next year. It is said that the UBER breach last year that exposed the...
It was recently revealed that Uber had quietly fixed a security flaw with their 2 factor authentication which was reported last Sunday. The bug could have allowed an attacker to log into user accounts, yet the ride-hailing giant downplayed the issue and said that it...
Former adult film star Maria Ozawa recently slammed the unprofessional behavior of several UBER drivers on social media after she had apparently been sent unsolicited messages via SMS. Ozawa, who does not use her real name on UBER, says that a person named “Ben” had sent...