Ftc Puts Uber On A Curt Leash For Safety Breaches (Plus Didi Encroaches)

Did Chuxing simply started-up inwards Mexico.*
Uber has to experience every bit if the basis is closing inwards on them.

From IEEE Spectrum:

For the side yesteryear side xx years, the way volition review reports on Uber’s privacy in addition to safety practices
It’s non nice―or smart―to deceive the data breach inwards May 2014 that allowed attackers to access the names in addition to driver’s licenses of 100,000 Uber drivers, along amongst many of the drivers’ banking enterprise accounts in addition to Social Security numbers.
In that consent agreement, Uber agreed to halt misrepresenting the character of its safety in addition to privacy practices; reach a comprehensive privacy programme into place, and; become independent third-party adventure assessments of its privacy programme every 2 years for the side yesteryear side xx years. The showtime assessment study would live on sent to the FTC, spell the residue would live on retained yesteryear Uber, which promised to human activeness on whatsoever recommendations made inwards the reports.

Then, inwards Nov 2017, Uber admitted in that location had been another information breach nearly ane twelvemonth earlier. This time, hackers accessed or in addition to then 25.6 meg names in addition to electronic mail addresses, 22.1 meg names in addition to mobile telephone numbers, in addition to 607,000 names in addition to driver’s license numbers of the U.S. Uber drivers in addition to customers. Furthermore, Uber confessed that it had paid $100,000 inwards ransomware disguised every bit a “bug bounty” to intruders to delete the information in addition to expire on the breach out of the populace eye....MORE

*Here's the Didi flush via VentureBeat:
China’s Didi launches ride-hailing service inwards Mexico, ane of Uber’s biggest strongholds