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Uber used secret spyware to try to crush Australian startup GoCatch
- luckylion 8y agoGeneral news have the usual problem with technology: terminology. This doesn't sound like spyware at all, but rather like software to spy on your competitor. https://www.techinasia.com/uber-allegedly-secret-program-spy-grab https://www.techinasia.com/uber-allegedly-secret-program-spy... is more clear: "Called Surfcam, the program developed by an Uber staff scraped data that competitors “published online” to figure out how many drivers were on their systems in real-time and where they were, the report said quoting anonymous sources."
- malandrew 8y agoyup, webscraping is not spyware.