david gauke.ed answers about a potentially massive data breach by the taxi—hailing firm uber. the company concealed a hack that affected 57 million customers and drivers. the incident happened in 2016, but was not revealed and the firm paid hackers $100,000, around £75,000, to delete the data. the minister told mps the first he'd known of the hack was on tuesday when he'd found out from the media. the breach appear dated back over a year and appears to have involved uber paying criminals money to try to prevent further data loss. we are told some uk citizens data is affected. we are verifying the extent and the amount of information, and when we have made the assessment we will publish the details of the impact on the uk citizens, and we plan to do this in a matter of days. he said the hack didn't seem to have come from the uk. at this stage, our initial assessment is that for uber customers, the stolen information is not the sort of information that would allow direct financial crime but we are w

david gauke.as admitted to mps his department was too ambitious when it attempted to introduce a new form of electronic tagging for criminals. the ankle tagging scheme makes use of gps satellite technology. it was meant to be a cheaper alternative to prison. but a national audit office report found that, by march, it cost the government £60 million and still hasn't been implemented. monday's session of the public accounts committee investigated the report's findings. the failure to pilot is something we all now regret. i think it was done because the department wanted to see results quickly and had faith in the contract being able to deliver more quickly than we realise now that they could have delivered. and there was an overoptimistic belief that tagging could be used as an alternative to other disposals. and without an insight into either behaviour of sentences or behaviour of offenders under a tagging regime. there was some basic research done, i understand, by the home office, but it was very

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slightly less angry was the cabinet minister david gauke this morning but he's normally fairly mild manneredising the president. in normal circumstances, this doesn't normally happen, this sort of thing. the president did what he did yesterday, in terms of tweeting, re—tweeting britain first, i think the prime minister had no choice but to point out that that was wrong. she was correct to do so. of course, we want to have a good relationship with the united states. they are our closest security allie, one of our most important economic partners and we wa nt important economic partners and we want to have that close relationship and need to engage with the united states, including the president of the united states. but when he's got something as badly wrong as he has, we are right to call him out on it. mrgauke we are right to call him out on it. mr gauke went tonne say he thought it might be "educational" for the prime minister to come to britain as pa rt prime minister to come to britain as part of that state visit. quite apart from the controversy over the state visit, this matters becaus