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Uber To Pay $20,000 In Settlement On Privacy Issues (csoonline.com)
itwbennett writes: Uber has agreed to pay a penalty of $20,000 in a settlement with New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman for delaying telling drivers about the data breach of their personal information in 2014. The company has also agreed to tighten employee access to geo-location data of passengers, following reports that the company's executives had an aerial 'God View' of such data, the office of the attorney general said in a statement Wednesday.
Show what? The cheaters will change their tactics and the god view data will still be sold to marketeers and government agencies.
BTW, if you love driverless cars, expect google and others to track everywhere you go with their god view. This sucks!
20k is probably less than 10% of cost of the legal team necessary for the agreement. Fines like are only incentives promoting "questionable" practices.
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Exactly. If you think of it as "building a business" it looks crazy. If you think of it as "I'm going to make lots of money and get a huge bonus for getting big short term profits" it makes perfect sense. All you need is a complete lack of moral sense or accountability.