It includes company presentations, briefing notes, security reports and tens of thousands of emails and WhatsApp, iMessage and chat exchanges between the company’s most senior staff at the time. The Uber files consists of confidential company data that MacGann had access to at Uber. “We have not and will not make excuses for past behaviour that is clearly not in line with our present values,” a spokesperson said. Responding to the wider investigation, Uber acknowledged past failings but insisted the company had transformed since 2017 under the leadership of its new chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi. Instead, we ask the public to judge us by what we’ve done over the last five years and what we will do in the years to come."Īfter MacGann identified himself as the whistleblower, Uber said: “We understand that Mark has personal regrets about his years of steadfast loyalty to our previous leadership, but he is in no position to speak credibly about Uber today.” In a statement, Uber said: "We have not and will not make excuses for past behaviour that is clearly not in line with our present values. The investigation was managed and led by the Guardian with the ICIJ. To facilitate a global investigation in the public interest, the Guardian shared the data with 180 journalists in 29 countries via the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
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They reveal how the company broke the law, duped police and regulators, exploited violence against drivers and secretly lobbied governments across the world.
The leaked records cover 40 countries and span 2013 to 2017, the period in which Uber was aggressively expanding across the world. The data consist of emails, iMessages and WhatsApp exchanges between the Silicon Valley giant's most senior executives, as well as memos, presentations, notebooks, briefing papers and invoices. The Uber files is a global investigation based on a trove of 124,000 documents that were leaked to the Guardian by Mark MacGann, Uber's former chief lobbyist in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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