Uber used undercover agents, court letter says

Re:Uber used undercover agents, court letter says by chippy on Saturday December 16, 2017 @10:41AM (#15939979)

Next SV pitch: "it's like Uber for organised crime".

semi-seriously though - I can imagine in a work of science fiction a "sharing economy" of people willing to trade time for work doing criminal activities evolves. There must have been such a novel written already. Thinking a bit more morally, how about an "Uber for police" where citizens can be contracted at short notice to trade time for work against criminals.

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Re:Uber used undercover agents, court letter says by bertil on Saturday December 16, 2017 @11:16AM (#15940138)

There is a lot of joke on how Cryptocurrency was for that (drugs & guns being the butt of the joke). It seems the current uptick is more related to getting money out of controlled change system (China and Zimbabwe). I can see how the ethics of accessing saving instruments or storing capital in a non-collapsing currency is different than organised crime but it is still technically illegal.

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Re:Uber used undercover agents, court letter says by dev_sebbot on Saturday December 16, 2017 @11:21AM (#15940166)

Sort of sounds like the Shadowrun universe, honestly.

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Re:Uber used undercover agents, court letter says by facetube on Saturday December 16, 2017 @01:18PM (#15940838)

Black Mirror already did it, with a bonus extortion angle. It was called "Shut Up And Dance".

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