Uber faces another irate UK regulator

Bloomberg

The UK regulator in charge of data privacy is looking into the major hack of Uber Technologies Inc.’s user data, opening up yet another front in the ride-hailing firm’s battle to manage one of its most successful markets.
“Uber’s announcement about a concealed data breach last October raises huge concerns around its data protection policies and ethics,” James Dipple-Johnstone, the Deputy Commissioner at the Information Commissioner’s Officer, said. “If UK citizens were affected then we should have been notified.”
Compromised data from the October 2016 attack included names, email addresses and phone numbers of 50 million Uber riders around the world, the company told Bloomberg.
A spokesman for UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Uber did not tell UK government about the breach at the time, while the UK’s cyber security centre said that it had not seen any evidence of financial details being compromised.
A spokesman from Uber said the company is in the process of notifying various regulatory and government authorities.
The UK is Uber’s largest European hub, yet in a surprise decision London’s transport regulator proposed it
be banned from the capital because
of safety concerns. Uber has launched
a major lobbying effort to rectify its
UK image. Uber’s appeal against Transport for London’s decision to revoke its license is set to be held on December 11.