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The Uber Breach and the Need for an Independent Privacy Function

Uber has incurred significant legal and reputational exposure as a result of the way that the company handled the breach. In the coming months, there will be a great deal of information and regulatory and judicial action that will act as guidance, or more precisely, a checklist of what-not-to-do, for companies that suffer a data breach.

9 minute read January 01, 2018 at 12:17 AM
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Paige Boshell
The Uber Breach and the Need for an Independent Privacy Function

The 2016 data breach involving 57 million Uber riders and drivers and the ensuing efforts to conceal the breach appears to have tapped into the public's — and the government's — frustration with a series of increasingly large data breaches experienced by some of our most visible companies and institutions.

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