{"id":267,"date":"2015-09-02T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2015\/09\/02\/uber-data-privacy-move-in-the-sharing-economy\/"},"modified":"2015-09-02T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T22:17:00","slug":"uber-data-privacy-move-in-the-sharing-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/uber-data-privacy-move-in-the-sharing-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber Data privacy move in the Sharing Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uber is taking steps to protect customer data by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>hiring\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoganlovells.com\/\" style=\"color:rgb(17,67,134);text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:17px;line-height:25px;\">Hogan Lovells US LLP<\/a>\u00a0to check out how the company collected and used customer data<\/li>\n<li>The lawfirm issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.uber.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Full-Report-Review-and-Assessment-of-Ubers-Privacy-Program-01.30.15.pdf\">report<\/a> which led to Uber releasing\u00a0a new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uber.com\/legal\/privacy\/users\/en\" style=\"color:rgb(17,67,134);text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:17px;line-height:25px;\">privacy policy<\/a>\u00a0that more clearly notified customers that it can pretty much track everything they do while using the Uber application\n<ul>\n<li>This then led to a complaint at the FCC about the Uber App tracking customers when they were not actively using Uber<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8221; Uber hired former cybercrime prosecutor and Facebook Inc. security leader Joe Sullivan as chief security officer, &amp;\u00a0\u00a0is reportedly looking to expand its in-house security team from 25 to 100 members by the end of 2015.&#8221;\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bna.com\/uber-moves-better-b17179935386\/\">Bloomberg | Privacy &amp; Data Security Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber is taking steps to protect customer data by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>hiring\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoganlovells.com\/\" style=\"color:rgb(17,67,134);text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:17px;line-height:25px;\">Hogan Lovells US LLP<\/a>\u00a0to check out how the company collected and used customer data<\/li>\n<li>The lawfirm issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.uber.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Full-Report-Review-and-Assessment-of-Ubers-Privacy-Program-01.30.15.pdf\">report<\/a> which led to Uber releasing\u00a0a new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uber.com\/legal\/privacy\/users\/en\" style=\"color:rgb(17,67,134);text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:17px;line-height:25px;\">privacy policy<\/a>\u00a0that more clearly notified customers that it can pretty much track everything they do while using the Uber application\n<ul>\n<li>This then led to a complaint at the FCC about the Uber App tracking customers when they were not actively using Uber<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8221; Uber hired former cybercrime&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-trend","category-transportation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}