alt Hacker NewsAccording to some people on X, they shut down immediately, while rides were still active. Sounds like an unplanned (and quite crazy) action.
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segmondy • today at 2:23 AM
It was planned. What's Nigeria and Uganda gonna do?
1970-01-01 • yesterday at 11:08 PM
This is hilarious. They are legally kidnappers at this point. No reason to even stop the ride and let you get out for free.
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Given Uber is one of the few companies who are lucky enough to have a separate page for all the controversies on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_surrounding_Uber), they also have their own fair of experience with police raids on their offices. They've also used "‘kill switch’ during raids to stop police seeing data" (https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-files-leak...) before, so I wouldn't be surprised if this was some sort of legal "kill switch" or whatever that got triggered, so they can get rid of everything faster.