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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Dan Milmo in Lisbon

Tech firms becoming ‘too big to govern’, says Uber whistleblower

Mark MacGann at the Web Summit in Lisbon
Mark MacGann paid tribute to Facebook and Instagram whistleblowers Frances Haugen and Daniel Motaung at the Web Summit in Lisbon. Photograph: Pedro Nunes/Reuters

Governments are losing the battle to regulate big tech and company insiders should step forward to expose “bad apples” in the sector, according to the Uber whistleblower.

Mark MacGann – the taxi firm’s former chief lobbyist in Europe, the Middle East and Africa – leaked more than 124,000 company files to the Guardian this year, revealing how the ride-hailing company flouted laws, duped police, exploited violence against drivers and secretly lobbied governments from 2013 to 2017.

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