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- The recent ‘Uber Files’ reveal that the company had deployed kill switches, purportedly to destroy sensitive data that could have been legitimately accessed by police and officials.
- A kill switch is a mechanism used to shut down or disable a device or program.
- In the manufacturing sector, they are deployed to terminate operations to arrest damage in assembly lines or save a worker’s life.
- They serve a similar purpose in the digital world but instead of hardware, they are mostly software-based.
- The purpose of a kill switch is usually to prevent theft of a machine or data or shut down machinery in an emergency.
- There was rape in a moving vehicle by the Uber driver, after that case, there was a suspension on uber for two months.
- Further regulatory authorities found many discrepancies around the company like,
- VAT (value added tax) return violations.
- Blocking access to data for Indian authorities.
- No physical presence of operations and Indian operations are being ran from Netherlands headquarters.
SOURCE: THE HINDU,THE ECONOMIC TIMES,MINT
