Uber uses data-mining to identify and block riders who may be cops, investigators or regulators

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS0NuV-zLZE

Greyball is Uber's codename for a program that tries to predict which new signups are secretly cops, regulators or investigators who could make trouble for the company, deployed in "Boston, Paris and Las Vegas, and in countries like Australia, China and South Korea" where the company was fighting with the authorities. (more…)

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