{"id":6289,"date":"2022-07-11T07:36:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T05:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/11\/uber-broke-laws-duped-police-and-secretly-lobbied-governments-leak-reveals\/"},"modified":"2022-07-11T07:36:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T05:36:16","slug":"uber-broke-laws-duped-police-and-secretly-lobbied-governments-leak-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/11\/uber-broke-laws-duped-police-and-secretly-lobbied-governments-leak-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>More than 124,000 confidential documents leaked to the Guardian<\/li>\n<li>Files expose attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2022\/jul\/10\/emmanuel-macron-secretly-aided-uber-lobbying-drive-france-leak-reveals\">Emmanuel Macron<\/a> secretly aided Uber lobbying in France, texts reveal<\/li>\n<li>Company used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2022\/jul\/10\/uber-bosses-told-staff-use-kill-switch-raids-stop-police-seeing-data\">\u2018kill switch\u2019 during raids<\/a> to stop police seeing data<\/li>\n<li>Former Uber CEO told executives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2022\/jul\/10\/violence-guarantees-success-how-uber-exploited-taxi-protests\">\u2018violence guarantees success\u2019<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A leaked trove of confidential files has revealed the inside story of how the tech giant Uber flouted laws, duped police, exploited violence against drivers and secretly lobbied governments during its aggressive global expansion.<\/p>\n<p>The unprecedented leak to the Guardian of more than 124,000 documents \u2013 known as the Uber files \u2013 lays bare the ethically questionable practices that fuelled the company\u2019s transformation into one of Silicon Valley\u2019s most famous exports.<\/p>\n<p>The leak spans a five-year period when Uber was run by its co-founder Travis Kalanick, who tried to force the cab-hailing service into cities around the world, even if that meant breaching laws and taxi regulations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2022\/jul\/10\/uber-files-leak-reveals-global-lobbying-campaign\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/76e0949b9bda37f26daaa18bba5bf56148a11faf\/0_0_5000_3000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=86cb0901dbc8c2043d48896880266f40\" title=\"Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals\" \/>More than 124,000 confidential documents leaked to the Guardian<br \/>\nFiles expose attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Macron secretly aided Uber lobbying in France, texts reveal<br \/>\nCompany used \u2018kill switch\u2019 during raids to stop police seeing data<br \/>\nFormer Uber CEO told executives \u2018violence guarantees success\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A leaked trove of confidential files has revealed the inside story of how the tech giant Uber flouted laws, duped police, exploited violence against drivers and secretly lobbied governments during its aggressive global expansion.The unprecedented leak to the Guardian of more than 124,000 documents \u2013 known as the Uber files \u2013 lays bare the ethically questionable practices that fuelled the company\u2019s transformation into one of Silicon Valley\u2019s most famous exports.<br \/>\nThe leak spans a five-year period when Uber was run by its co-founder Travis Kalanick, who tried to force the cab-hailing service into cities around the world, even if that meant breaching laws and taxi regulations. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 124,000 confidential documents leaked to the Guardian Files expose attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne Emmanuel Macron secretly aided Uber lobbying in France, texts reveal Company used \u2018kill switch\u2019 during raids to stop police seeing data Former Uber CEO told executives \u2018violence guarantees success\u2019 A leaked trove of confidential &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/11\/uber-broke-laws-duped-police-and-secretly-lobbied-governments-leak-reveals\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6290,"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\/6289"}],"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=6289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}