Opinion: Big Tech’s reckoning won’t stop with Uber


Uber says it has transformed itself since 2017 under the leadership of chief executive officer Dara Khosrowshahi, and it is indeed a different company today from the one that founder Travis Kalanick started. In fact, the documents underscore how much the landscape for tech founders has changed. — Reuters

Life for big tech companies looks increasingly different to how it did five years ago.

Back then, Uber Technologies Inc used a secret “kill switch” to thwart police from probing its data systems in more than a dozen countries. It forged into cities where its gig-economy model broke local rules, going above the heads of mayors and courting heads of state with aggressive charm offensives that saw the likes of then-French economy minister Emmanuel Macron make personal calls on Uber’s behalf to solve its regulatory problems.

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