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Uber To Pay $20,000 In Settlement On Privacy Issues (csoonline.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the sorry-take-some-money dept.

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.

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  1. Please by fred911 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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  2. Slap on the wrist by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 4, Interesting

    $20K? That's trivial. A tiny settlement like this essentially means its OK for companies to have a secret God mode or to keep way more information than they tell their consumers about.