After much scrutiny about its privacy practices, Uber Technologies has released a new and updated privacy policy, Bloomberg Business reports. The policy is clearer about what Uber does with riders’ personal data, including tracking locations, reading text messages between riders and drivers and storing user address books. Hogan Lovells’ Harriet Pearson, CIPP/US, who led a privacy review of the company, said such data “actually wasn’t an issue. They had already addressed that at the time of our review.” Carnegie Mellon’s Lorrie Faith Cranor, CIPT, said the policy is written to protect Uber from liability: “This is a company that collects and uses a lot of data.” In a blog post, Uber’s Katherine Tassi said the company has doubled the size of the privacy team in the last few months.
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