[Algent]

That's basically what happened when they tried (twice I think ?) to raid Uber offices in France, their boss pressed a kill switch and everything went down in seconds. It completely blocked the investigation.

Afterward Uber helped Macron campaign who then ordered National Financial Prosecutor's office to "stop bothering them" so I don't think anything new happened since.

Edit: Some sources in below replies for infos on both. Turn out I'm wrong for 2nd part it started earlier than his campaign.

[stuaxo]

That sounds so illegal, it's crazy there aren't consequences for that.

EDIT: Article on the kills switch https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-bosses-tol...

[0cf8612b2e1e]

If you are a little person in the USA, I believe that would be spoliation of evidence.

[lokar]

Nothing uber does is crazy anymore

[exe34]

you'd think a judge could order you to provide the documents and then jail you for contempt of court until you do?

[golemotron]

The alternative, giving them a password that gives them read/write access to sensitive systems, would be insane. Subpoena for particular data.

[nicce]

> Afterward Uber helped Macron campaign who then ordered National Financial Prosecutor's office to "stop bothering them" so I don't think anything new happened since.

Isn’t that kinda definiton of corruption?

[Algent]

I do need to correct myself, look like "friendship" started before his election: https://www.euronews.com/2023/07/18/a-privileged-relationshi...

Pretty crazy to support a business designed to never pay tax. This bring nothing beside "precarious employment".

[grecy]

Woah, slow down there citizen.

It’s been rebranded to “lobbying” and “campaign contributions”. Much cleaner. Better optics.

[lm28469]

Ahahahah you fool, don't be ridiculous, in civilized western countries we call it lobbying

[hulitu]

No. Corruption is when the others are doing it. /s

[sensanaty]

How the hell can any of what you just described be legal?

Do you have any articles about this? Because this is insane if true.

[barrenko]

It kinda sounds like you can't raid Uber / Netflix without hackers, Ghost in the shell type raid. Which is probably the future of raids.

[YetAnotherNick]

Why should it be illegal? Isn't it akin to "right to remain silent"? Why the need to present any information to police unless it is asked by court. Assuming that they didn't delete the data, just moved it to somewhere safe where it couldn't directly be taken away.

We had a raid in one of my previous company due to copyright violation due to a user uploaded content. Authorities came in to take in all the codebase, reports and even employee devices. Basically once given court permission, police would try to collect all the unrelated things which could be taken in the permission, so that they could extort you later.

[Izikiel43]

That’s so interesting, probably a good move for them, it’s not their job to make governments lives easier

[Muromec]

Sounds like obstruction of justice or what not

[jokoon]

do you have a source for the "kill switch"?

[intelVISA]

Some Saturday morning cartoon villain behavior, lol.