{"id":179933,"date":"2017-09-09T19:19:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/09\/3rd-time-is-the-charm\/"},"modified":"2017-09-09T19:19:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T00:19:00","slug":"3rd-time-is-the-charm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/09\/3rd-time-is-the-charm\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd Time is the Charm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>There is now a <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/09\/uber-is-apparently-facing-a-third-federal-criminal-investigation\/\">third federal criminal investigation of Uber<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Federal investigators are probing an internal program, dubbed &#8220;Hell,&#8221; that Uber used to keep tabs on its leading competitor, Lyft, the <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/uber-faces-fbi-probe-overprogram-targeting-rival-lyft-1504872001?mod=e2tw\">reporting<\/a>. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;Uber created fake Lyft customer accounts, tricking Lyft\u2019s system into believing prospective customers were seeking rides in various locations around a city. That allowed Uber to see which Lyft drivers were nearby and what prices they were offering for various routes,&#8221; the Journal reports. &#8220;The program was also used to glean data on drivers who worked for both companies, and whom Uber could target with cash incentives to get them to leave Lyft.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Federal investigators are reportedly probing &#8220;whether &#8216;Hell&#8217; constituted unauthorized access of a computer&#8221;\u2014which is a federal crime under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the anti-hacking statute Congress passed in 1986.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">As the <i>Journal<\/i> points out, Uber is now facing three separate federal investigations. In addition to the &#8220;Hell&#8221; investigation, Uber is also facing scrutiny for creating a special version of its app to mislead local officials trying to enforce tax regulations. The third investigation is considering whether Uber violated anti-bribery laws.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I really want to see Travis Kalanick frog marched out of his house by FBI agents in handcuffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is now a third federal criminal investigation of Uber: Federal investigators are probing an internal program, dubbed &#8220;Hell,&#8221; that Uber used to keep tabs on its leading competitor, Lyft, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. &#8220;Uber created fake Lyft customer accounts, tricking Lyft\u2019s system into believing prospective customers were seeking rides in various locations &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,368,364,407,471],"class_list":["post-179933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-justice","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}