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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by bri3d on Friday March 03, 2017 @06:43PM (#13787989)
The system has extremely obvious use cases in abuse mitigation - it's basically HN shadow banning for car service. Only a few needed to know about the spot-the-officials aspect, and the rest is legitimate. And support don't need to know anything - if someone is reporting fake cars, they're an undesirable customer anyway so from Uber's standpoint, it's fine if support get confused and do a bad job.
Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by azernik on Friday March 03, 2017 @08:12PM (#13788493)
From my read of the article, abuse mitigation seems to have been an early motivation for some components of this feature - in markets where, for example, competitors would threaten Uber drivers with damage against person or vehicle. And then someone got the bright idea of who else they could shadowban...
Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by h84hgihrgeg on Friday March 03, 2017 @09:19PM (#13788757)
A Philadelphia agency was caught teaming up with taxi companies to fight Uber http://www.vox.com/2016/1/30/10873372/uber-lyft-taxi-philade...
Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by wheelerwj on Saturday March 04, 2017 @10:13AM (#13791178)
caught is a bit hyperbolic. Government agencies have every right to work with industry partners to promote, understand, and enforce regulation. This happens all day everyday in industries around the world. Uber isn't somehow exempt from that.