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Consider Uber's "Greyball" program. This attempted to identify people (read: government officials) who would use Uber in order to document how it worked for pur
by ubernostrum 10y ago
Consider Uber's "Greyball" program. This attempted to identify people (read: government officials) who would use Uber in order to document how it worked for purposes of determining if it complied with local laws, and ensure they couldn't get a ride and thus couldn't collect evidence of Uber breaking the law.
They said that was really a program to deal with people violating their terms of service. So one would think, given Uber's demonstrated commitment to enforcing its own terms, they'd have the utmost respect for competitors' terms. Of course, if they violate competitors' terms to gain an advantage, then we know where they really stand and what their own standards are (i.e., no standards other than "anything that gets us ahead is good").