That Uber breach? Privacy commissioner is now investigating

The country’s Privacy Commissioner is opening a grave review into a 2016 Uber crack that compromised a personal information of tens of millions of a ride-hailing service’s users.

Similar investigations have been launched by authorities in a U.S., U.K., and Australia, as good as countless U.S. states, while a class-action lawsuit has also been filed in Alberta.   

Uber suggested final month that information on some-more than 57 million of a service’s riders and drivers was stolen in 2016, yet a association says it has no justification a information was misused.

The association won’t say how many Canadians users had information stolen. The U.K. supervision says it learned that 2.7 million U.K. users were affected.

Uber’s former arch confidence officer Joe Sullivan managed to keep a crack a tip for some-more than a year, until it emerged final month that had paid a thieves $100,000 to destroy a information. 

Reuters reported that a remuneration was sheltered as a bug annuity payout — income mostly paid to confidence researchers who brand and news flaws or bugs found in a company’s systems. 

“The remoteness of riders and drivers is of peerless significance at Uber and we will continue to work with a Privacy Commissioner on this matter,” pronounced Uber Canada spokesperson Xavier Van Chau in a statement.

Another spokesperson, Susie Heath, formerly told CBC News that, until a association is finished operative with authorities, “we aren’t in a position to get into some-more detail.”

In his annual news to Parliament this past fall, Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien pronounced his bureau was looking to be some-more active in a coercion of a country’s remoteness protections — in part, by rising some-more of a possess investigations.

Under stream legislation, a remoteness commissioner can't emanate contracting orders or fines opposite companies that injustice personal information or omit a recommendations. It can, however, take non-compliant companies to Canada’s Federal Court, where a decider can sequence a association to comply.

Tobi Cohen, a orator for a remoteness commissioner’s office, declined to yield serve information, citing confidentiality supplies of Canada’s remoteness legislation.

Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/uber-breach-2016-privacy-commissioner-formal-investigation-1.4443120?cmp=rss