Uber To Pay $20,000 In Settlement On Privacy Issues (csoonline.com) 17
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.
cheaters never win! (Score:2)
Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
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!
Re: (Score:1)
You think this isn't done now? Any app on the App Store that you give permission to, will have this capability.
Looks more like (Score:1)
none of that company's executives have a clue as to how to run a worldwide-operating outfit. Simply no clue. Prolly overpaid, undereducated hoodies ?
Re:Looks more like (Score:4)
Actually they seem to have a pretty good clue - barge on into a new market, operate there and profit for a good while before anyone can do anything about it (because these things take time), ultimately get kicked out of 3/4ths of your markets but still profit in the remaining ones, and there's always a brand new market to barge on into in the place of the ones that kick you out.
Re:Looks more like (Score:4)
That is, indeed, *a way to start. It is NOT a way to develop anything even close to sustainable.
Re: (Score:1)
Doesn't matter. Had profit.
Other people are left holding the bag.
Re:Looks more like (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
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What are you, some kind of dirty capitalist trying grow markets or something? Zero-sum mercantilism is one of the cornerstones of the return to feudalism.
Please (Score:5, 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.
Slap on the wrist (Score:5, 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.
Uber is great! (Score:4)
I missed the part about Jail for the Execs (Score:1)
where was that mentioned in the article, again?