Following his inquisition into car-for-hire service Uber on its data collection practices, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) now wants its rival, Lyft, to explain its privacy practices, CIO reports. In a letter to Lyft’s CEO, Franken wrote that consumers should be allowed to decide for themselves with whom they share their personal data and must be assured that when their data is shared, it will be well-protected, the report states. “In few places is the importance of this as apparent as with companies, such as Lyft, that employ new technologies and rely on the transmission of sensitive data,” Franken wrote.
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