A top executive of the ride service reportedly described a Nixonian plan to dig up dirt on journalists who criticize it and sully their reputations.
A Buzzfeed reporter wrote that when she attended a meeting with an Uber executive in New York, he was monitoring her arrival in one of the company’s cars.
The author Peter Sims said his personal travel information was apparently shown on a wall at an Uber launch party, and the anecdotal evidence that the company has played fast and loose with its customers’ data is pretty compelling.
A writer for San Francisco Magazine said sources inside the company warned her that the company might monitor her rides.
The Uber public relations debacles spread across other areas: reports of Uber officials ordering cars from competitor Lyft in order to poach its drivers; a sexist promotion for its service in Lyon, France.
The company has renounced the thuggish campaign of targeting critics that its senior vice president for business, Emil Michael, described in a dinner party attended by the BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith.
So, Grow up. Just a thought.
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