Uber Data Leaked Following Breach at Third-Party Vendor

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Information apparently belonging to ride-hailing giant Uber has been leaked online and the source of the data is likely a third-party IT vendor.

Over the weekend, a user with the moniker ‘UberLeak’ made public on a hacker forum a 600 Mb archive file allegedly containing 20 million records of data coming from Uber systems.

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The Potential and Pitfalls of a Federal Privacy Law

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Congress is considering a US federal privacy law. It’s been brewing for the last ten years and is getting closer. On July 20, 2022, the House Energy and Commerce Committee overwhelmingly voted (53-2) to advance the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA), H.R. 8152, to the full House of Representatives. But there are still problems to navigate.

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