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Re:Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App by rahimnathwani on Monday September 25, 2017 @08:46AM (#15329933)
"once made aware of the incidents, Uber should have reported them to the police"

Is that what other minicab firms do?

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Re:Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App by willvarfar on Monday September 25, 2017 @08:57AM (#15330002)
In the UK there is no legal requirement that someone knowing a crime has occurred to report it to the police.

Uber seem to be reporting crimes where they are the victim (the article says they report a lot of small fraud) but not crimes where others are the victim.

Which leaves an interesting thinking experiment: would Uber report a murder? The victim obviously can't report it. It would be illegal for Uber to do anything to assist the murderer in escaping the law, e.g. by cleaning the car etc; but would they actually report it?

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Re:Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App by vertex-four on Monday September 25, 2017 @09:10AM (#15330101)
> In the UK there is no legal requirement that someone knowing a crime has occurred to report it to the police.

No, but there is a requirement as part of London's minicab license to do so in "severe" cases, and to report to TfL in less-severe cases.

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Re:Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App by rootlocus on Monday September 25, 2017 @09:06AM (#15330073)
> In the UK there is no legal requirement that someone knowing a crime has occurred to report it to the police.

Except Uber is a company not a person and not reporting crimes left them without a license.

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Re:Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App by ensignavenger on Monday September 25, 2017 @09:28AM (#15330242)
Shouldn't the victims be reporting these crimes? If the victims aren't reporting them, maybe they don't want them reported? Maybe they have a good reason for not wanting them reported? I have heard victims advocates state that it should be up to the victims what legal action/investigation/etc should take place. I am not an expert in this area, but maybe that is what Uber is doing?
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Re:Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App by corford on Monday September 25, 2017 @09:41AM (#15330364)
According to the article, the victims were under the impression that Uber would report it to the police as part of their investigation in to the driver.
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Re:Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App by ensignavenger on Monday September 25, 2017 @09:53AM (#15330449)
Thanks for pointing that out- now I wonder why they got that impression? Uber should definitely be making changes to their interactions to make it clear. I guess I am not familiar with the customs around such things in London.
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Re:Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App by rootlocus on Monday September 25, 2017 @08:48AM (#15329953)
> Is that what other minicab firms do?

If they still have their license, I believe they do.

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Re:Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App by Djvacto on Monday September 25, 2017 @08:51AM (#15329966)
Do you have any reason to believe they don't? I'm struggling to find numbers about it, but either they do and there's no news about it, or they don't and not only should Uber be under speculation, so should they. How do either of those change the fact that Uber did something wrong?
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