One lakh 24 thousand internal documents of ride sharing service Uber have been leaked. The ‘Uber Files’ also includes text messages, email conversations and even letters from politicians, top industrialists and media moguls with top officials of the company from 2013 to 2017.
According to the leaked documents, the Uber authorities have deliberately taken illegal steps to expand their business in the world market. In order to increase business, bribery in the name of public relations, illegal friendship, have tried to change the market at their own convenience. Travis Kalanick, the founder and former chief executive of Uber, has even used the violent attacks on drivers to further his own interests.
According to a BBC report, Uber has used at least 90 million dollars a year to keep influential people, including politicians, on its side. Through this, the company founded by technology entrepreneur Travis Kalanick has successfully destroyed the taxi market in Europe. The British media has focused more on Uber with French President Emmanuel Macron. Citing a leaked text message, the report said Emanuel Macron, the country’s current president and then-finance minister, had agreed to amend the law if necessary to allow Uber to do business in France.
According to the report, a large amount of Uber’s internal documents first came into the hands of the British daily The Guardian. It was shared with dozens of media outlets, including the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism (ICIJ). The documents include Uber’s internal memos, presentations, notebooks as well as ’emails, iMessages, and WhatsApp messages circulated among senior Silicon Valley company executives’.
Analyzing the leaked documents, the Guardian reported that “Uber had carefully sought to gain the support of the prime minister, the president, the billionaire, the oligarch and the media barons.”
The Washington Post reports that the company has used “violent attacks on drivers” to further its own interests at the policy-making level. So the bullet point read, “Regulators should never be left alone.”