{"id":142105,"date":"2022-07-12T18:27:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T23:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/uber-broke-laws-duped-police-and-secretly-lobbied-governments-leak-reveals"},"modified":"2022-07-12T18:27:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T23:27:25","slug":"uber-broke-laws-duped-police-and-secretly-lobbied-governments-leak-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/uber-broke-laws-duped-police-and-secretly-lobbied-governments-leak-reveals","title":{"rendered":"Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uber-broke-laws-duped-police-and-secretly-lobbied-governments-leak-reveals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A leaked trove of confidential files has revealed the inside story of how the tech giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/uber\">Uber<\/a> flouted laws, duped police, exploited violence against drivers and secretly lobbied governments during its aggressive global expansion.<\/p>\n<p>The unprecedented leak to the Guardian of more than 124,000 documents \u2013 known as the Uber files \u2013 lays bare the ethically questionable practices that fuelled the company\u2019s transformation into one of Silicon Valley\u2019s most famous exports.<\/p>\n<p>The leak spans a five-year period when Uber was run by its co-founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/travis-kalanick\">Travis Kalanick<\/a>, who tried to force the cab-hailing service into cities around the world, even if that meant breaching laws and taxi regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leaked trove of confidential files has revealed the inside story of how the tech giant Uber flouted laws, duped police, exploited violence against drivers and secretly lobbied governments during its aggressive global expansion. The unprecedented leak to the Guardian of more than 124,000 documents \u2013 known as the Uber files \u2013 lays bare the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}