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...I'm really surprised to see Uber on the top of the list and Apple not being anywhere.
by d33 10y ago
...I'm really surprised to see Uber on the top of the list and Apple not being anywhere.
- nxzero 10y agoWhy would Apple be on a list for "Sharing Economy Companies" - I'm not seeing the reasoning behind why you'd believe they're a sharing economy company?
- d33 10y agoTheir recent fight with FBI for one. Granted, they're not saints, but at the very list they stirred up some controversy.
- bskap 10y agoBut they're not a "sharing economy" company. They show up on the normal Who Has Your Back list.
- theseatoms 10y agoThe modern 'cloud' sounds like data storage sharing and computing sharing to me.
- bskap 10y ago"sharing economy" usually refers to services that don't directly sell things, but instead get users who want things in contact with other users who have things- Uber getting people who want to use a car in contact with people who have a car, for example. Cloud is just traditional renting with fancy terminology.
- wyldfire 10y agoThey're not on this list because they're not in these [sharing economy] marketplaces. They have been and likely will continue to be a part of the primary "Who has your back?" review ([1] e.g). [1] https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-requests-2015 https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-reques...
- d33 10y agoAh, right, missed this one. Sorry.
- RickS 10y agoUber has an extremely adversarial relationship with the US gov, so while I doubt they're doing this out of love for their users, citizen privacy and uber's profits happen to have a shared enemy.
- throwaway45589 10y agoNew York and California transportation regulators demand records of all Uber rides/requests in their respective jurisdictions and have the authority to fine Uber and/or shut it down in their jurisdictions if it doesn't comply. At least in California, Uber has been fighting it [0]. [0] http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tn-uber-puc-20160114-story.html http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tn-uber-puc-20160114-s...