On November 2, Uber whistleblower Mark McGann spoke at tech conference the Web Summit and commented on Uber’s current practices and business model. At the summit, MacGann talked about Uber’s recent statements on its business model and the company’s executive team.
MacGann, a lobbyist who worked for Uber, identified himself as the whistleblower who provided The Guardian with over 124,000 files that became The Uber Files. “The data reveals how Uber flouted the law, duped police, exploited violence against drivers and secretly lobbied governments across the world,” a Guardian explainer article reports. The documents, which include emails, iMessages, and WhatsApp messages, exposes “the ethically questionable practices through which the company barged its way into new markets, often where existing laws or regulations made its operations illegal, before lobbying aggressively for those same laws or regulations to be altered to accommodate it.”
MacGann said that he decided to speak up “because he believes Uber knowingly flouted laws in dozens of countries and misled people about the benefits to drivers of the company’s gig-economy model,” according to an exclusive interview he gave to the Guardian.
In the interview, MacGann acknowledged the role he played in furthering Uber’s goals worldwide and expressed regret: “I regret being part of a group of people which massaged the facts to earn the trust of drivers, of consumers and of political elites,”...
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