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> The country has not specifically regulated transport services like Uber, but has said it will suspend for 25 years the licenses of drivers caught working for
by romaaeterna 7y ago
> The country has not specifically regulated transport services like Uber, but has said it will suspend for 25 years the licenses of drivers caught working for the platform.
> The fine from the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce says Uber urges employees not to give information to regulators and to block access to company computers.
Call me crazy, but I wonder if they were trying to get a list of drivers, for the purposes of pulling licenses.
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- toomuchtodo 7y agoProbably just as easy to have a team in Colombia (edit: typo corrected) request Uber rides and have regulators pull licenses on the spot of whomever shows up.
- freehunter 7y agoThey did that in Madison WI when Uber first showed up. The police would call an Uber, complete a trip, and issue them a citation when the trip was complete.
- blowski 7y agoIs that related to the software that detected whether a user worked for a government agency?
- toomuchtodo 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyball https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyball
- anticensor 7y agoColumbia (an entity of USA) vs Colombia (a Spanish-speaking country in the Central America).
- desiderantes 7y agoColombia is in South America
- Shorel 7y agoTaxi drivers do this with some frequency. Then box the Uber car and call the police.
- atonse 7y agoAmazing, Uber urges employees to not comply with regulators? Wow what an attitude. Hope they get their asses handed to them and that the house of cards that is Uber comes crashing down spectacularly, and soon.
- romaaeterna 7y agoDoesn't the government need warrants in Colombia to search computers?
- atonse 7y agoDid uber tell its employees not to comply unless they had a warrant, or just not to comply? The latter sounds like them.
- JeremyBanks 7y agoUber has been an deliberately criminal organization from day one. Many of their executives should be in prison, but they have suffered no meaningful consequences. Nothing will change.
- atonse 7y agoThey won't. Nothing will change. They all hide under the cover of "disruption" when there were ways to do all this without breaking the law and flaunting regulators.
- colechristensen 7y agoSome of the regulations needed to be broken. Cab companies provided bad service and corrupted local governments to give them monopolies. Breaking that has been a good thing but Uber/Lyft/etc have in many cases gone too far.
- teknopaul 7y agoTotally agree. Its organised crime.