{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mccaskill.senate.gov/media-center/news-releases/mccaskill-nelson-raise-concerns-over-uber-and-lyft-privacy-policies", "McCaskill, Nelson Raise Concerns Over Uber & Lyft Privacy Policies", "2014-12-23", "2014", "2014-12", "Democrat", "House", "MO", "Claire McCaskill", "M001170", "www.mccaskill.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "McCaskill, Nelson Raise Concerns Over Uber & Lyft Privacy Policies \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t Senators demand answers from ride-sharing companies on privacy protection, data securities practices \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTuesday, December 23, 2014\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill and Bill Nelson have sent letters to the CEOs of ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft, raising concerns about the companies\u2019 privacy policies and demanding answers on current privacy and data security practices.\r\n\u201cSome media reports have suggested that Uber lacks responsible data-security practices and potentially disregards the protections articulated in its privacy policy,\u201d the Senators, both senior members of the Commerce Committee, wrote in their letter to Uber. \u201cFor example, the press has reported that the general manager of Uber\u2019s New York operations tracked and accessed a reporter\u2019s travel logs on multiple occasions, though the reporter never consented to being tracked or having her data accessed. According to another press report, an individual interviewing for a job at Uber reportedly had access to the company\u2019s database of customer records, including actual travel records of Uber riders. Such allegations, if true, appear contrary to Uber\u2019s claim that it has a \u2018strict policy prohibiting all employees at every level from accessing a rider of driver\u2019s data\u2019 with exceptions for a \u2018limited set of legitimate business purposes,\u2019 and the allegations raise questions about Uber\u2019s enforcement of its own policies.\u201d\r\nThe Senators also expressed concern with media reports that Uber\u2019s \u201cGod View\u201d of customer\u2019s geolocation and other data is easily accessible to staff across the company, as well as media reports that a Lyft spokeswoman had access to customers\u2019 travel logs.\r\nMcCaskill, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, and Nelson, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Science and Space, requested Uber and Lyft provide companies of all public and internal polices pertaining to their practices on privacy policies, third party data sharing, consumer data retention and notification, data breach protections, and other policies.\r\nThe Commerce Committee has jurisdiction over the Federal Trade Commission, which since 2002 has brought more than 50 enforcement actions against companies that have put consumers\u2019 data at risk or failed to honor the terms of their privacy policies.\r\nThe Senators\u2019 letters to Uber and Lyft can be found HERE and HERE.\r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t  \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.mccaskill.senate.gov/media-center/news-releases/mccaskill-nelson-raise-concerns-over-uber-and-lyft-privacy-policies"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.432187156751752, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}