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Uber Sued Over Driver Data Breach, Adding To Legal Woes
wabrandsma writes with news about the latest trouble facing Uber. "Uber Technologies Inc has been hit with a proposed class action lawsuit over a recently disclosed data breach involving the personal information of about 50,000 drivers, the latest in a series of legal woes to hit the Internet car service. The suit, filed Thursday in federal court in San Francisco by Sasha Antman, an Uber driver in Portland, Oregon, says the company did not do enough to prevent the 2014 breach and waited too long — about five months — to disclose it. Antman says Uber violated a California law requiring companies to safeguard employee's personal information."
This "shell game" fiction happens to be the truth of the matter and historically has always been held up by the courts. At no point are the drivers in the employment (directly or otherwise) of Uber. Uber's business is to provide an application platform that connects drivers with passengers. Both of those parties voluntarily use the service that Uber provides in accordance with its Terms of Service. Drivers are no more an employee of Uber than the passengers themselves, ergo, they're not.
To say otherwise is the height of intellectual dishonesty.