Uber's 'greyballing' debacle

BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT

7/26/20251 min read

Very recently the New York Times published an expose of the so called 'Greyballing' technique deployed by the company behind the world famous taxi hailing app - Uber. This technique effectively prevented local government authorities from catching Uber's potential violations of law through technology based cloaking techniques. The whole incident yet again brought to the fore the willingness of corporates to test limits of laws and ethics while pursuing profits.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-program-evade-authorities.html