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Someone I know was just commenting that from convos w/ people in other companies, it seems many startups have benefitted from not being under the limelight, and
by lhorie 9y ago
Someone I know was just commenting that from convos w/ people in other companies, it seems many startups have benefitted from not being under the limelight, and thus had the chance to quietly clean up their own messes while Uber was taking all the heat from the media.
- tzahola 9y agoSo basically Uber is the Weinstein of startups.
- dx034 9y agoBut it appears that Weinstein helped to clean up the industry a lot. Would be great if Uber helps to make startups more responsible (I doubt that).
- dominotw 9y agoI always suspected that uber flames were fanned by its many competitors.
- IncRnd 9y agoThat may be, but the fires were caused by Uber.
- mrkurt 9y agoUber's dumpster fire didn't need any fanning.
- Apocryphon 9y agoWhat a day for Waze Carpool, then.
- 303space 9y agoDoes anyone else find this whole thing more than a bit hypocritical? Lyft is always telling you they are the better/ethical/woke ridesharing option - now their employees are reporting a culture of abusing customer privacy. I wish they had taken a look at their own practices before running million dollar ad campaigns full of celebrities celebrating their ‘wokeness’.
- azernik 9y agoUber had the kicker that invasion of privacy was a top-down policy explicitly used by management. Lyft still done fucked up, but not to the level that Uber did.
- andrestan 9y agoWhich news story about Uber makes invasion of privacy seem like a top-down policy?
- azernik 9y agoTracking a journalist: https://www.theverge.com/2014/11/19/7245447/uber-allegedly-tracked-journalist-with-internal-tool-called-god-view https://www.theverge.com/2014/11/19/7245447/uber-allegedly-t... About the company specifically designing and building an internal tool to make this process easier: https://www.theverge.com/2014/11/19/7245447/uber-allegedly-tracked-journalist-with-internal-tool-called-god-view https://www.theverge.com/2014/11/19/7245447/uber-allegedly-t... That whole "greyball" story, which involved personal tracking of law enforcement officers: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-program-evade-authorities.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-...
- mattmanser 9y agoAnd don't forget they got hold of the medical records of a woman who'd reported she'd been raped by an Uber driver: https://www.recode.net/2017/6/7/15754316/uber-executive-india-assault-rape-medical-records https://www.recode.net/2017/6/7/15754316/uber-executive-indi...
- danso 9y agoMuch of the criticism against Uber concern top-level decisions, such as the creation and use of "Greyball", or actions and decisions from Kalanick himself and other top executives. Lyft maybe deserves blame for not building better and more automated audit systems and policies after knowing that these lookups could be abused.