Uber, especially in the first days of its release, had a great impact around the world, including in our country. While some saw Uber as a very good service, others argued that it caused unfair competition, and even an investigation was launched against Uber in our country.
For a while, these discussions grew and Uber was banned in many countries, including our country. After these developments, Uber, which started to serve in our country for a long time, came to the agenda again with the events in the past.
Uber’s top executives allegedly used ‘kill switch’ method to hide information from police raids
According to a report published by the Guardian today; Uber’s top executives told staff to use the ‘kill switch’ method in police raids that started in 2014. In other words, it is claimed that a covert tactic was applied to prevent the police and authorities from accessing the data on company computers. The aforementioned kill switch method; It allows remote control of computers and preventing unwanted access.
It is claimed that Uber used this method for the first time in investigations in France in 2014, and then in the Netherlands, India, Hungary, Canada and Hong Kong. reported to have stopped using it. Pierre Dimitri Gore Coty said he regretted “some of the tactics used to reform ridesharing in the early days” of what he encountered while working at Uber. However, Coty has not definitively confirmed that Uber is using the aforementioned ‘kill switch’ method.
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