How Uber Used Secret Greyball Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide

How Uber Used Secret Greyball Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide:

But unknown to Mr. England and other authorities, some of the digital cars they saw in the app did not represent actual vehicles. And the Uber drivers they were able to hail also quickly canceled. That was because Uber had tagged Mr. England and his colleagues — essentially Greyballing them as city officials — based on data collected from the app and in other ways. The company then served up a fake version of the app populat...