Uber used secret spyware to try and crush Australian start-up GoCatch

guest · Mar 18, 2019

Uber used secret spyware to try and crush Australian start-up GoCatch
March 18, 2019
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03...to-try-and-crush-australian-start-up/10901120

GoCatch was a major competitor to Uber when the US company launched in Australia in 2012. At the time, both companies were offering a new way to book taxis and hire cars using a smartphone app.

A former senior Uber employee has told Four Corners that the idea behind the use of the Surfcam spyware was to starve GoCatch of drivers.
"Surfcam allowed Uber Australia to see in real time all of the competitor cars online and to scrape data such as the driver's name, car registration, and so on"

The existence of Surfcam has been confirmed to Four Corners by a senior Uber source.
The source stated that the spyware program was developed by a staff member in the Sydney head office who modified off-the-shelf data scraping software.
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