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Uber Files: A One-Year RetrospectiveFormer Uber lobbyist Mark MacGann gave The Guardian 189.69 gigabytes of data; the investigation prompted protests and inquiries worldwide.
- Former Uber lobbyist Mark MacGann approached The Guardian and handed over the data at a meeting on Lake Geneva before later coming forward as a whistleblower.
- According to Paul Lewis, the leak covered five years and documented how Uber pushed into markets, broke laws and then sought to change them.
- The project was shared with ICIJ and expanded to 180 journalists in 29 countries.
- The publication prompted protests and government inquiries; a French parliamentary report published in July 2023 found serious flaws in gig-economy regulation and criticized close ties between cabinet members and Uber executives.
IN MOST OF THE COUNTRIES UNDER MY JURISDICTION, UBER WAS NOT ALLOWED, WAS NOT AUTHORIZED, WAS NOT LEGAL.— Mark MacGann, former Uber lobbyist for Europe, the Middle East and Africa; whistleblower who first approached The Guardian with the Uber Files data.
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