Uber, facing public backlash, will rethink privacy
Silicon Valley-based ride-sharing company Uber is looking eastward to inject some wisdom into how it handles user data.
Zach Miners | 21 Nov | Read more
Silicon Valley-based ride-sharing company Uber is looking eastward to inject some wisdom into how it handles user data.
Zach Miners | 21 Nov | Read more
Imagine trying to write policy around privacy and the Internet back in the 1990s. It was a world with fewer than 20 million internet users, most of them based in the United States. The task was given to Larry Irving in 1994 after he co-authored a paper on internet privacy. He became the first internet advisor to the then Clinton-Gore government.
Anthony Caruana | 18 Nov | Read more
Data is compromised so frequently these days that it seems like nothing is safe anymore. So one would be forgiven for thinking that using apps that require the user to voluntarily submit payment card information in order to function -- think Venmo, Uber, etc. -- would be a risky play. The reality, however, is that these kinds of apps are actually no more risky than any other transaction involving payment cards.
Grant Hatchimonji | 09 Sep | Read more
The official calendar for Joshua Wright, a commissioner with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, shows he has had many meetings with technology company lobbyists, but none with consumer advocates, even though consumer protection is a major part of the agency's mission.
Grant Gross | 05 Apr | Read more
At 8 p.m. on New Year's Eve, a driver fatally hit 6-year-old Sofia Liu as she walked with her mother and brother in a San Francisco crosswalk. Car accidents happen all the time in major cities, but this is different: The driver was in between fares as a contractor for Uber. Liu's family this week filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the transportation app in California Superior Court.
Caitlin McGarry | 28 Jan | Read more