MP promises to grill UK.gov over revelations that Uber handed '2,000 pieces' of user data to London cops a year

MP promises to grill UK.gov over revelations that Uber handed '2,000 pieces' of user data to London cops a year

Conservative backbencher David Davis has vowed to ask questions in Parliament over Uber's seemingly unregulated sharing of data with police and transport regulators as it battled to save its London taxi licence.


The outspoken one-time Brexit Secretary took to Twitter on Friday, sharing a story from The Times reporting on Uber's court efforts to keep its valuable taxi operator's licence in England's capital.


In November 2019, Uber was formally stripped of its licence after what Transport for London (TfL) called a "pattern of failures", including allowing random third parties to upload their mugshots to legitimate Uber driver accounts, bypassing background checks.


Last week Westminster Magistrates' Court heard the American taxi-hailing app's latest appeal against its loss of licence – including revelations that the Metropolitan Police and TfL alike benefited fr ..

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