Relations between Uber and the United Kingdom are still sometimes very complex. Since the transport regulator in London decided to withdraw the US company's operating license in September 2017, the situation is tense: relations with the governor, the security of the company in terms pbadengers and drivers. He mentions in particular the use of Greyball – the location system of employees of the public administration in order to avoid the controls – have been determining factors for the future d & # 39; Uber in the country. Nearly 50,000 drivers were left at the expense of knowing whether their activity, under the control of the multinational, would continue.

It is in June of the same year that the regulator and Uber have gone to court. As part of a monitoring agreement with Transport for London, Uber has regained its license for another 15 months. A skid of the terms of the contract would jeopardize the permanence of the entity. A few months later, the question of drivers asking to be fired as employees has put Uber back in check.

In the UK, another headache announces. That same Tuesday, the technology received the announcement that it was to pay almost 400,000 euros as a penalty for having committed the data of 2.7 million customers and 82,000 drivers after a cyberattack. Addresses, e-mails, phone numbers that piracy made in 2016 had access to; according to the company, bank account, card and social security data have not been disrupted. Similarly, the problem is that Uber confirmed that he had reported the hacking only a year later and that he had also spent $ 100,000 to destroy the data. stolen from the authors. From the point of view of the Office of the Information Commissioner, Bloomberg stated "that it was not just a serious data security failure by Uber, but also a serious breach of data security. a total disregard for customers and drivers whose personal information had been stolen. "

This is not the first fine that the technology receives because of a data leak and its refusal. The Netherlands has also condemned Uber for the filtration of 2016. In this context, the leak has already claimed the first resignation: that of the maximum responsible for security, Joe Sullivan. This was rejected not only for the error, but also for hiding a fault for a year.