> I think I would be okay with being filmed as long as it wasn't secret.
Would you be OK with the video being published on a major news site?
Would you be OK with the video being published on a major news site?
"Character is what you do when you think nobody will find out."
Edit: Also, you probably are being filmed elsewhere in any major hotel (lobby, halls, etc). And I've seen plenty of that footage end up on TV.
edit: here's some precedent that may suggest you do have expectation of privacy as a passenger in someone else's car, though the scenario is different http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
I think its unfair to say that simply by doing business with the general public, every CEO becomes a public figure.
That doesn't make it right. Clearly you would not be happy about it either.
I think the interesting part of this story is not Kalanick's character based on the video, but rather the business decisions Uber made and how that has impacted their drivers.
It appears Uber has benefited from people investing in fancy cars. If it was their business plan to mislead people into doing that and then force them to take Uber X rides, then that is wrong, though not illegal.
It's why we don't get to see Trump's or Congress' tax returns without some kind of court case.
If they're forced to do it by law, it will be forced upon you too, and boom, everyone knows all your financials.
We can decide what we want to add to our culture. Secret videos don't need to be part of it.
Imagine yourself as the driver. If the video had never been published, he would never have even gotten an apology from Kalanick. I sympathise with those who don't have the kind of power that the CEO of of Uber does. He is a serf in the hellish gig economy that Kalanick has made himself a billionaire many times over. This is the most meaningful political impact he will probably ever make in his life. Kalanick, meanwhile, will probably be okay, even if this leads to a chain of events where he is fired.
I want to choose a kind of culture where the working class are not so powerless against the rich. Just because one thinks it should be the law for the president to release their tax returns, doesn't mean that they think every single person should be subject to such an invasion of privacy for no reason.
There is no such thing as privacy when you get to be that big. And frankly, any leader competent enough to run a business that big should already know that.