How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide

Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by doctorcroc on Friday March 03, 2017 @08:23PM (#13788545)

While subjective, there is a difference between breaking laws / fighting authority for moral reasons, and breaking laws for financial gain. Yeah, maybe you as an engineer would feel morally righteous for "fighting the man", but Uber doesn't care about that -- it just wants $$$.

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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by aantix on Friday March 03, 2017 @09:16PM (#13788744)

Uber is fighting the man, in effort to capture $$$/market. That's their market. A business makes money?

As much as you wouldn't like to admit, they've broken through a market that was once monopolized and the cities had zero interest in doing anything about it.

You now have superior car ride services in part for the work they've done in the market. They have raised the bar.

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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by codedokode on Friday March 03, 2017 @09:54PM (#13788899)

But their competitors who comply with the law are losing now.

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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by odbol on Friday March 03, 2017 @11:22PM (#13789247)

Exactly the point: the law has ceased to serve the people and has become irrelevant. It's on the government to change it in order for society to progress, not hold us back.

Remember, people are using Uber. Citizens. Voters. They are voting with their dollar for the superior product. The government's role has become obsolete in the transaction.

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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by mirimir on Saturday March 04, 2017 @09:04AM (#13790908)

And who paid for the law to be created.

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