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London Puts a Leash On Uber
The probation period could be a model for curtailing tech company re-offending.
Silicon Valley's model citizen.
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London may just have laid out a roadmap for how to prevent Silicon Valley recidivism.
A judge’s decision to grant Uber Technologies Inc. a limited license to operate in the city — predicated upon passing regular audits — sets a precedent that others might want to follow. In recent years, European regulators have repeatedly punished the likes of Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc. over their corporate behavior. But those punishments have, as my colleague Leonid Bershidsky has written, all too frequently failed to stop them re-offending.