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Think about all that information you trusted uber with because now you're trusting organised crime. You /have/ to treat uber and the like as though they are or

by harry8 4y ago

Think about all that information you trusted uber with because now you're trusting organised crime. You /have/ to treat uber and the like as though they are organised crime even if you think they are and will always be in league with rainbows, fairies and unicorns will never put your interests behind theirs. edit: wave to uber's PR flunkies.

rodgerd 4y ago
Given that Uber routinely tracked politicians and journos and shared it around the company, and had stood up toolsets to track and evade police so as to facilitate drivers dodging law enforcement, they always were organised crime.
- tpxl 4y ago
  > evade police so as to facilitate drivers dodging law enforcement Isn't this illegal as fuck?
  - Nextgrid 4y ago
    The law doesn't apply if you're a big company.
  - anarticle 4y ago
    It's only illegal if you get caught! :D This was part of Uber's early strategy when cities responded with citing drivers of rideshare services. At this point, I've seen a rideshare stop in the center of an intersection with traffic to let people out, so maybe the cities were right in the end...
  - rodgerd 4y ago
    Most of the high-profile "tech startups" are mired in "doing illegal shit quicker than you get caught, with computers".
judge2020 4y ago
Eh, based on the screenshots and claim that they're doing some trolling, it might be a teen or small group of hackers that happened to gain such a wealth of data and their first instinct is to "download all the data, we'll figure out how to sell it later". If they had shopped around for a nation state buyer this certainly would've been more covert and a bigger hack.
sschueller 4y ago
If they really did get in hope they grabed the internal company communications etc so we can finally criminally prosecute the people that have systematically and knowingly broken the law. Additionally even if the information might not be admissible in US courts, it is in other countries making travel for those individuals very uncomfortable.

by harry8 4y ago

rodgerd 4y ago

Given that Uber routinely tracked politicians and journos and shared it around the company, and had stood up toolsets to track and evade police so as to facilitate drivers dodging law enforcement, they always were organised crime.

tpxl 4y ago
> evade police so as to facilitate drivers dodging law enforcement Isn't this illegal as fuck?
- Nextgrid 4y ago
  The law doesn't apply if you're a big company.
- anarticle 4y ago
  It's only illegal if you get caught! :D This was part of Uber's early strategy when cities responded with citing drivers of rideshare services. At this point, I've seen a rideshare stop in the center of an intersection with traffic to let people out, so maybe the cities were right in the end...
- rodgerd 4y ago
  Most of the high-profile "tech startups" are mired in "doing illegal shit quicker than you get caught, with computers".

judge2020 4y ago

Eh, based on the screenshots and claim that they're doing some trolling, it might be a teen or small group of hackers that happened to gain such a wealth of data and their first instinct is to "download all the data, we'll figure out how to sell it later". If they had shopped around for a nation state buyer this certainly would've been more covert and a bigger hack.

sschueller 4y ago

If they really did get in hope they grabed the internal company communications etc so we can finally criminally prosecute the people that have systematically and knowingly broken the law. Additionally even if the information might not be admissible in US courts, it is in other countries making travel for those individuals very uncomfortable.