More than 124,000 confidential documents leaked to the Guardian Files expose attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne Emmanuel Macron secretly aided Uber lobbying in France, texts reveal Company used ‘kill switch’ during raids to stop police seeing data Former Uber CEO told executives ‘violence guarantees success’
People will continue to order food and get convenient rides
Nothing will happen.
Dominic Murphy
The ones at Uber, United Kingdom and Macron, to be precise.
>The leak also contains texts between Kalanick and Emmanuel Macron, who secretly helped the company in France when he was economy minister, allowing Uber frequent and direct access to him and his staff. >Macron, the French president, appears to have gone to extraordinary lengths to help Uber, even telling the company he had brokered a secret “deal” with its opponents in the French cabinet. oy vey >In a statement, Osborne said it was the explicit policy of the government at the time to meet with global tech firms and “persuade them to invest in Britain, and create jobs here”. >While the Davos sitdown with Osborne was declared, the data reveals that six UK Tory cabinet ministers had meetings with Uber that were not disclosed. It is unclear if the meetings should have been declared, exposing confusion around how UK lobbying rules are applied. Oy vey!
Bentley Garcia
>When faced with opposition, Uber sought to turn it to its advantage, seizing upon it to fuel the narrative its technology was disrupting antiquated transport systems, and urging governments to reform their laws.
>As Uber launched across India, Kalanick’s top executive in Asia urged managers to focus on driving growth, even when “fires start to burn”. “Know this is a normal part of Uber’s business,” he said. “Embrace the chaos. It means you’re doing something meaningful.”
>Kalanick appeared to put that ethos into practice in January 2016, when Uber’s attempts to upend markets in Europe led to angry protests in Belgium, Spain, Italy and France from taxi drivers who feared for their livelihoods.
>Amid taxi strikes and riots in Paris, Kalanick ordered French executives to retaliate by encouraging Uber drivers to stage a counter-protest with mass civil disobedience.
>Warned that doing so risked putting Uber drivers at risk of attacks from “extreme right thugs” who had infiltrated the taxi protests and were “spoiling for a fight”, Kalanick appeared to urge his team to press ahead regardless. “I think it’s worth it,” he said. “Violence guarantee[s] success. And these guys must be resisted, no? Agreed that right place and time must be thought out.”
(((OY VEY)))
Wyatt Wood
>Across the world, police, transport officials and regulatory agencies sought to clamp down on Uber. In some cities, officials downloaded the app and hailed rides so they could crack down on unlicensed taxi journeys, fining Uber drivers and impounding their cars. Uber offices in dozens of countries were repeatedly raided by authorities.
>Against this backdrop, Uber developed sophisticated methods to thwart law enforcement. One was known internally at Uber as a “kill switch”. When an Uber office was raided, executives at the company frantically sent out instructions to IT staff to cut off access to the company’s main data systems, preventing authorities from gathering evidence.
>The leaked files suggest the technique, signed off by Uber’s lawyers, was deployed at least 12 times during raids in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, India, Hungary and Romania.
Josiah Butler
I've never even used an Uber and likely never will because the drivers are just a bunch of pervert pajeets here. Not going to give money to these Joos either.
Uber's job was to set up the preliminary business networks in countries across the world that were going to try to pioneer their autodriving cabs in cities they serviced with the "App"
In order to get away with their scheme they had planned to have real drivers use their own vehicles to get off the ground and build popularity and a ton of money without paying for permits and for licenses.
The later attempts to use a driverless network were being flaunted as they planned to have Elon build a fleet for them, and were going to run a "pilot program" to show how it worked in cities where they planted one of their constituents as a city councilor. Believe it or not they had planned to set up some larger cities with their own patsy councils that would just call this "innovation" as opposed to the nature of these cabals being a racket.
The ultimate idea was to set up the network to buy them out so that Elon could produce a "Robovan" concept for them.....which he is now trying to come to terms with seeing the rest of the faults ahead of him being used to stall all of their progress in other countries
He was set to either buy out Uber and be their sole vendor, or just network with them as they were used as a front for local "regime changes"
Nathan Phillips
>Uber offices in dozens of countries were repeatedly raided by authorities.
>>Against this backdrop, Uber developed sophisticated methods to thwart law enforcement. One was known internally at Uber as a “kill switch”. When an Uber office was raided, executives at the company frantically sent out instructions to IT staff to cut off access to the company’s main data systems, preventing authorities from gathering evidence.
Silicon Valley still have the disruptor mentality!
Hunter Cox
>“Violence guarantee[s] success. And these guys (taxi drivers) must be resisted, no? >Agreed that right place and time must be thought out.” - Travis Kalanick, former CEO of uber
When you work at Uber. You are doing something meaningful.
>Kalanick’s top executive in Asia urged managers to focus on driving growth, even when “fires start to burn”. >“Know this is a normal part of Uber’s business,” he said. “Embrace the chaos. It means you’re doing something meaningful.”