Uber bosses told staff to use ‘kill switch’ during raids to stop police seeing
data
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Uber bosses told staff to use ‘kill switch’ during raids to stop police
seeing data

   By Rob Davies and Simon Goodley, 5 hrs ago
   The Guardian
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   Senior executives at Uber ordered the use of a “kill switch” to prevent
   police and regulators from accessing sensitive data during raids on its
   offices in at least six countries, leaked files reveal.

   The instructions to block authorities from accessing its IT systems
   were part of a sophisticated global operation by the Silicon Valley
   company to thwart law enforcement.

   The Uber files, a cache of confidential company data leaked to the
   Guardian, reveal how the company deployed its kill switch at least 12
   times in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, India, Hungary and Romania.

   The Uber files is a global investigation based on a trove of 124,000
   documents that were leaked to the Guardian. The data consist of emails,
   iMessages and WhatsApp exchanges between the Silicon Valley giant's
   most senior executives, as well as memos, presentations, notebooks,
   briefing papers and invoices.

   The leaked records cover 40 countries and span 2013 to 2017, the period
   in which Uber was aggressively expanding across the world. They reveal
   how the company broke the law, duped police and regulators, exploited
   violence against drivers and secretly lobbied governments across the
   world.

   To facilitate a global investigation in the public interest, the
   Guardian shared the data with 180 journalists in 29 countries via the
   International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). The
   investigation was managed and led by the Guardian with the ICIJ.

   [2]In a statement , Uber said: "We have not and will not make excuses
   for past behaviour that is clearly not in line with our present values.
   Instead, we ask the public to judge us by what we’ve done over the last
   five years and what we will do in the years to come."

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   2. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-response-uber-files-leak