Incident 334: Uber Deployed Secret Program To Deny Local Authorities Rides
Description: Uber developed a secret program "Greyball" which prevented known law enforcement officers in areas where its service violated regulations from receiving rides.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Uber developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed local law enforcement officers.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
334
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2014-10-01
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
nytimes.com · 2017
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SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has for years engaged in a worldwide program to deceive the authorities in markets where its low-cost ride-hailing service was resisted by law enforcement or, in some instances, had been banned.
The program, involving a…
theguardian.com · 2017
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Uber’s annus horribilis continued apace Friday, as it was hit with revelations of a secret program to evade law enforcement, the resignation of another top executive and more allegations of workplace discrimination.
The New York Times repor…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.