Uber Shutting Down Drizly

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Uber has decided to shutter Drizly, an alcohol delivery service it bought three years ago for $1.1 billion, Axios has learned.

The big picture: Drizly was always a bit of an odd match for Uber, in that it didn't hire or contract its own delivery workers. Instead, Drizly provided backend tech that let local liquor stores provide their own deliveries.

• The bigger issue, however, might have been cybersecurity. Drizly in 2020 confirmed a hack that exposed information on around 2.5 million customers.
• What it didn't say, however, was that the company had been aware of the security flaw for two years without fixing it.
• That information was discovered by the Federal Trade Commission, after Uber's acquisition of Drizly, and led to an FTC order that restricted the types of customer information that Drizly could collect and retain.

Source: https://www.axios.com/2024/01/15/uber-drizly-acquisition-shutters

Apparently I signed up for Drizly at some point in the past (don't recall doing that), as I received an email about Drizly shutting its doors. It's an interesting move by Uber, given how much money they spent on purchasing this company just a couple years ago.

 

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I say it's a good thing.. 🙂

 

[MrDawn]

I wonder if it has anything to do with Inflation? Maybe?

 

[zappaDPJ]

Drizly is being merged into Uber Eats. I don't know much about either company but it sounds like it might be a better match?

Regarding the data breach; wow! If the amount of people's PII harvested wasn't bad enough, they sat on the breach for two years.

I took a look at Drizly's site and it appears they operate worldwide although they claim otherwise in their terms and conditions. They operate internationally under US legislation, specifically, 'Do Not Sell My Personal Information'. That's clearly an opt out whereas most EU countries and other areas including the UK require an opt in.

Review sites confirm this is a company to avoid like a plague. Even their own review page conveniently crashes on entry.