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Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: Jack Meoff on September 24, 2019, 11:26:08 am

Title: Uber
Post by: Jack Meoff on September 24, 2019, 11:26:08 am
Uber’s application to renew its private hire operating licence in London has been rebuffed again by regulators.
Transport for London has instead given the ride-hailing firm only a two-month extension to its licence, which is due to expire on Wednesday night.
It is the second time in two years that TfL has rejected Uber’s application for a full operating licence.
Title: Re: Uber
Post by: john m on September 24, 2019, 11:32:07 am
Brown envelopes it will be sorted .Expect them to do like the taxithingey did here and issue another type of licence somewhere between a taxi and a hack .
Title: Re: Uber
Post by: Octavia1 on September 24, 2019, 12:23:38 pm
Brown envelopes it will be sorted .Expect them to do like the taxithingey did here and issue another type of licence somewhere between a taxi and a hack .
Remember Rachel whetstone?

https://www.ft.com/content/3c5ebc20-1300-11e7-80f4-13e067d5072c (https://www.ft.com/content/3c5ebc20-1300-11e7-80f4-13e067d5072c)
Title: Re: Uber
Post by: watty on September 24, 2019, 06:32:12 pm
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/24/dday_for_ubers_london_licence/ (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/24/dday_for_ubers_london_licence/)

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TfL removed Uber's licence in 2017 on grounds that it was not a "fit and proper person" to run a minicab firm – possibly the greatest insult ever uttered.

Uber's breaches included conducting driver eye tests via video link to a service called Push Doctor, as well as spying on regulators who were checking Uber's services using Greyball software.

Uber also made a bungled attempt to cover up the loss of millions of customers’ private data by paying the hacker $100,000 to keep schtum.

Ouch!
Title: Re: Uber
Post by: silverbullet on September 24, 2019, 07:27:22 pm
Ken Loach nails the gig economy:
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt8359816/
Title: Re: Uber
Post by: Rat Catcher on September 27, 2019, 03:58:18 pm
Does the Carlyle Group still own Addison Lee?