MANILA, Philippines — The National Privacy Commission has asked officials of ride-hailing mobile application Uber to further explain their data processing operation following a breach involving over 50 million users and drivers worldwide. Uber had revealed that around 171,000 Filipino citizens were affected by the 2016 data breach based on mobile phone numbers listed in the registry. Affected data subjects include users' registered names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers. The commission has received reports of irregular processing after the report of the data breach and is looking into such claims. Uber Philippines earlier confirmed that they had failed to provide the commission information on the data breach such as the scope of exposure.

Source: Philippine Star December 15, 2017 04:30 UTC