Uber Technologies Inc. agreed to two decades of audits as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over allegations the ride-hailing company didn’t have sufficient data-privacy protections for its users. The settlement revolves around a 2014 incident in which more than 100,000 names and driver’s-license numbers were accessed in a breach of Uber’s database. The FTC said Uber didn’t take enough steps to secure data, such...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 15, 2017 17:48 UTC