UBER Employees Spying On Ex-Partners, Politician, and Celebrities: An Arising Privacy Issue; How Safe Are Their Clients?
A series of abused are observed from Uber employees with their capacity to check on people such as high profiled politicians, celebrities, and even their personal acquaintances. This is an alarming trend the Uber employees are doing according to the investigation.
Samuel Ward Spanberg, the company's forensic investigator stated that the regular abuses made by the Uber employees raised an alarm within the company. The former executives, Human Resource officers, and head of the security information got fired 11 months ago because of this.
Previous Uber Offenses On Privacy
In 2014, it was revealed that the "God Tool" exist where it is capacitated to track their customer even after the transaction. The drivers may not have access to the internal tool the company is using but the Uber employees have their headquarters.
Johana Bhuiyan, one of those who reported the incident, caught surprised that a Mohrere waited for her. Mohrere in a gesture holding hi iPhone saying "There You Are. I was tracking you." Bhuiyan never gave him permission to do so.
The former Chief Security of Uber said, much of the information is out of date and doesn't accurately reflect the state of our practices today. this is possibly a case relating to stalking crime for Uber employees doing the bad practice.
Uber Responded
Uber employees strictly adhere to the confidentiality policy the Uber is implementing. They strongly prohibit their employees to access travelers detail. In fact, Uber Policy relies on the Honor system and cease to abuse their access to their internal tool "God Tool".
However, five security Uber Employee came forward and admitted that the company still allows their employees to access data. The fact that this access is made available for them means that acquiring private information of their clients are still at risk.
Uber already paid $20,000 fine for the breach of privacy in 2014. There could be more cases if former clients will start to come forward and state their claims that their privacy is abused.
