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   PR ☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻 (peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 12:33:23 JST PR ☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻

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   “An #Uber manager allegedly wrote in an email: “GoCatch is the reason we’re launching #taxi in #Sydney. Fuck those guys.”

   The court heard Uber developed a #spyware tool called “#Surfcam” to steal #GoCatch drivers’ data, including their names and phone numbers, with Rohrsheim telling a colleague on 31 July 2013: “We are aggressively cold-calling [without disclosing how we got their number] and won 56 of [GoCatch’s] drivers.”

   Another for the dirtbag files.

   #espionage / #corporate / #TechBro #tech / #internet <https://theguardian.com/law/2024/apr/02/uber-vs-taxi-app-gocatch-trial-australia-corporate-espionage-allegations>

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     PR ☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻 (peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 12:33:24 JST PR ☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻

     “Google agreed to destroy billions of records to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the #internet use of people who thought they were browsing privately in its Chrome browser’s #incognito mode.

     Users alleged that #Google’s analytics, cookies and apps let the #Alphabet unit improperly #track people who set Google’s Chrome browser to “incognito” mode and other browsers to “#private” #browsing mode.”

     Dirtbags

     <https://theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/01/google-destroying-browsing-data-privacy-lawsuit>

     Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) repeated this.