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One involves delivering software to license holders. The other has to deal with the possibility of humans using their app as an assault or kidnapping mechanism
by gjsman-1000 2y ago
One involves delivering software to license holders.
The other has to deal with the possibility of humans using their app as an assault or kidnapping mechanism; from either end (rider attacking driver; driver kidnapping passenger, etc.)
Very different levels of responsibility. This can be seen, for example, by the size of Lyft and Uber’s security teams.
- djhaskkka 2y agoyou wish their headcount was for the customer safety team! their lobbying team is probably larger than this one.
- gjsman-1000 2y agoFalse, according to OpenSecrets, lobbying is under $2M a year. https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?id=D000067782 https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary...
- specialist 2y agoThis is based on US Senate data. Does it include state and local lobbying?
- uyeieiii 2y agothat doesn't even cover the salary of all the obama admin people uber hired. let alone the actual lobbying going on. that's just what fall under some specific tax code.