The leak also contains texts between Kalanick and Emmanuel Macron, who secretly helped the company in France when he was economy minister, allowing Uber frequent and direct access to him and his staff. In a statement, Kalanick’s spokesperson said he “never suggested that Uber should take advantage of violence at the expense of driver safety” and any suggestion he was involved in such activity would be completely false.
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In one exchange, Kalanick dismissed concerns from other executives that sending Uber drivers to a protest in France put them at risk of violence from angry opponents in the taxi industry. 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." 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). 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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