{"id":19261,"date":"2025-06-25T11:38:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T09:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/25\/second-study-finds-uber-used-opaque-algorithm-to-dramatically-boost-profits\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T11:38:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T09:38:26","slug":"second-study-finds-uber-used-opaque-algorithm-to-dramatically-boost-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/25\/second-study-finds-uber-used-opaque-algorithm-to-dramatically-boost-profits\/","title":{"rendered":"Second study finds Uber used opaque algorithm to dramatically boost profits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US academics say computer code systematically raised fares at expense of drivers and passengers<\/p>\n<p>A second major academic institution has accused Uber of using opaque computer code to dramatically increase its profits at the expense of the ride-hailing app\u2019s drivers and passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Research by academics at New York\u2019s Columbia Business School concluded that the Silicon Valley company had implemented \u201calgorithmic price discrimination\u201d that had raised \u201crider fares and cut driver pay on billions of \u2026 trips, systematically, selectively, and opaquely\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jun\/25\/second-study-finds-uber-used-opaque-algorithm-to-dramatically-boost-profits\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c163c716d2bacb69596281f2ababaa2315c437ce\/543_0_5413_4333\/master\/5413.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=060d72e0d7b5f7aaef954f4bbc313303\" title=\"Second study finds Uber used opaque algorithm to dramatically boost profits\" \/>US academics say computer code systematically raised fares at expense of drivers and passengers<br \/>\nA second major academic institution has accused Uber of using opaque computer code to dramatically increase its profits at the expense of the ride-hailing app\u2019s drivers and passengers.<br \/>\nResearch by academics at New York\u2019s Columbia Business School concluded that the Silicon Valley company had implemented \u201calgorithmic price discrimination\u201d that had raised \u201crider fares and cut driver pay on billions of \u2026 trips, systematically, selectively, and opaquely\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US academics say computer code systematically raised fares at expense of drivers and passengers A second major academic institution has accused Uber of using opaque computer code to dramatically increase its profits at the expense of the ride-hailing app\u2019s drivers and passengers. Research by academics at New York\u2019s Columbia Business School concluded that the Silicon &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/25\/second-study-finds-uber-used-opaque-algorithm-to-dramatically-boost-profits\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Second study finds Uber used opaque algorithm to dramatically boost profits<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19261"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}