A senior source at Uber has confirmed to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Four Corners programme that Uber Australia illegally deployed an in-house piece of spyware called Surfcam in order to spy on drivers for a rival rideshare company called Gocatch; Uber was able to compile lists of drivers' emails, car registration numbers and other details and it used these to poach Gocatch drivers and turn them into Uber drivers. Uber was previously caught using Surfcam illegally in Singapore.
Uber Used Spyware To Surveil And Poach Drivers From Australian Rival Service Gocatch
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
Tue, 03/19/2019 - 12:25pm
Topics: australian broadcasting corporation's four corners uber australia singapore ceo travis kalanick greyball andrew campbell gocatch sean nicholls peter cronau mary fallon/abc uber australian four corners gocatch surfcam gocatch spyware poach drivers rival service company called business in-house illegally start-up rideshare businesses developed practice caught
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