Conservative backbencher David Davis is set to ask questions in Parliament over Uber's seemingly unregulated sharing of data with police and transport regulators as it battled to save its London taxi licence.
The outspoken one-time Brexit Secretary took to Twitter on Friday, sharing a story from The Times reporting on Uber's court efforts to keep its valuable taxi operator's licence in England's capital.
In November 2019, Uber was formally stripped of its licence after what Transport for London (TfL) called a "pattern of failures", including allowing random third parties to upload their mugshots to legitimate Uber driver accounts, bypassing background checks.
Last week Westminster Magistrates' Court heard the American taxi-hailing app's latest appeal against its loss of licence – including revelations that the Metropolitan Police and TfL alike benefited from "thousands of pieces of intelligence on drivers, passengers and journeys each year," as The Times reported.
Davis expressed the fear that in its desperation to keep its licence, Uber had formed a Faustian pact with police and TfL, silently surveilling its passengers and drivers alike in the hope of buying itself a licence renewal by greasing the deal with customers' data.
Police units supporting Uber's appeal, according to written arguments seen by the newspaper, included the National Police Chiefs' Council, the National Crime Agency, and the British Transport Police. A police manager wrote to TfL in a letter shown to the court boasting that Uber had handed over user data more than 2,000 times per year.
The finding is not inconsistent with the taxi app operators' actions in the US, though it also used a cop-blocking technology called Greyball to detect and cancel ride bookings made by undercover police workers looking for violations of local regulations.
The case at Westminster Mags Court ran from 14-17 September and a ruling on Uber's appeal over losing its license is due next week.
TAXI LEAKS EXTRA BIT :
Wonder if the Met police would care to make a statement on this, as it looks that the Met are supporting Uber’s relicensing.
What’s a few hundred rapes, a few thousand sexual assaults, 13,000 fake criminal record certificates, instances of terrorism, massive customer fraud and account hacking, when you can get a bit of customer info, Dame Cressida Rose Dick DBE QPM ???
BREAKING BEWS
TAXI LEAKS EXTRA BIT :
Wonder if the Met police would care to make a statement on this, as it looks that the Met are supporting Uber’s relicensing.
What’s a few hundred rapes, a few thousand sexual assaults, 13,000 fake criminal record certificates, instances of terrorism, massive customer fraud and account hacking, when you can get a bit of customer info, Dame Cressida Rose Dick DBE QPM ???
BREAKING BEWS
UPDATED INFORMATION
From Department for Transport
FACE COVERINGS MANDATORY FOR PASSENGERS BUT NOT DRIVERS IN TAXIS AND PRIVATE HIRE VEHICLES IN ENGLAND FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT ...
Taxi and private hire passengers will be required by law to wear a face covering from midnight tonight.
The penalty for failing to cover your face will be doubled from £100 to £200.
Department for Transport have just confirmed that taxi and private hire drivers hire DO NOT have to wear a face-mask.
It is however recommend, that you wear one when passengers are in your vehicle.
Source PHTM
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