{"id":7507,"date":"2022-10-25T17:38:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T15:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/25\/uber-whistleblower-calls-on-europe-to-tackle-undemocratic-power-of-tech-companies\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T17:38:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T15:38:21","slug":"uber-whistleblower-calls-on-europe-to-tackle-undemocratic-power-of-tech-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/25\/uber-whistleblower-calls-on-europe-to-tackle-undemocratic-power-of-tech-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber whistleblower calls on Europe to tackle \u2018undemocratic\u2019 power of tech companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark MacGann tells MEPs Uber had \u2018almost unlimited finance\u2019 to silence drivers with legal disputes<\/p>\n<p>The whistleblower who revealed how Uber flouted the law and secretly lobbied governments around the world has called on European lawmakers to take on the \u201cdisproportionate\u201d and \u201cundemocratic\u201d power held by tech companies.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to a committee of MEPs in the European parliament, Mark MacGann, who was Uber\u2019s top lobbyist in Europe, said the cab-hailing company\u2019s practices were \u201cborderline immoral\u201d as he recalled the \u201calmost unlimited finance\u201d executives had to lobby and silence drivers with legal disputes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/oct\/25\/uber-whistleblower-calls-on-europe-to-tackle-undemocratic-power-of-tech-companies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0d6ac1c0fdd913b7512d5f22e0634aeaa3ec851e\/0_154_4606_2764\/master\/4606.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=16fdbdba799e0ebcbf4772a45874ac1e\" title=\"Uber whistleblower calls on Europe to tackle \u2018undemocratic\u2019 power of tech companies\" \/>Mark MacGann tells MEPs Uber had \u2018almost unlimited finance\u2019 to silence drivers with legal disputes<br \/>\nThe whistleblower who revealed how Uber flouted the law and secretly lobbied governments around the world has called on European lawmakers to take on the \u201cdisproportionate\u201d and \u201cundemocratic\u201d power held by tech companies.<br \/>\nSpeaking to a committee of MEPs in the European parliament, Mark MacGann, who was Uber\u2019s top lobbyist in Europe, said the cab-hailing company\u2019s practices were \u201cborderline immoral\u201d as he recalled the \u201calmost unlimited finance\u201d executives had to lobby and silence drivers with legal disputes. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark MacGann tells MEPs Uber had \u2018almost unlimited finance\u2019 to silence drivers with legal disputes The whistleblower who revealed how Uber flouted the law and secretly lobbied governments around the world has called on European lawmakers to take on the \u201cdisproportionate\u201d and \u201cundemocratic\u201d power held by tech companies. Speaking to a committee of MEPs in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/25\/uber-whistleblower-calls-on-europe-to-tackle-undemocratic-power-of-tech-companies\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uber whistleblower calls on Europe to tackle \u2018undemocratic\u2019 power of tech companies<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7508,"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\/7507"}],"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=7507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}