Priscila, Queen of the Rideshare Mafia
wired.com
wired.com
Ugh. Wired articles have a reputation for poor accuracy, but that's taking the piss.
I got to meet Chris Anderson once, when I was visiting the Reddit office back in 2010. I wasn't really able to articulate what an impact wired had on me at that point, as I didn't really appreciate it then, but we're I to meet him again, I'd absolutely make sure to convey it
As for the article in question, I wasn't able to make it past a couple paragraphs of purple prose before resorting to a kagi summary. In reading said summary, I wasn't missing much. An article gushing about a criminal who steals people's identity to commit fraud seems a bit on the nose to me
But there also many like ESPN who stick to their topic decade after decade.
0) The victims of identity theft didn't know or lose anything.
1) The internet was build, a truly crazy amount of code was written but you still cant conveniently use anything and prove you are you.
2) Each delivery or taxi service had its own failures. Each reinvented the wheel each with their own holes.
3) Taxi and delivery services profited from being unable to id people. The worse they did the more they profited.
4) She got to keep some of the profit.
5) The punishment is pointless as it doesn't convince people to not eat and not live anywhere. Prison is a resort by comparison.
6) And finally the failure to have this wizard do anything useful in a legal way.
Cannot speak for portugese language (which is the predominant one in Brazil), but I can confirm that in russian if you say “memory” (“память”), you are talking about storage capacity. Not RAM.
You think 'Lauren Smiley' doesn't speak english and auto translated this article?
No. But I think it could be the case that the author simply talked to the parents or the subject of the article, and then simply translated what they said in that part from portugese to english. And as a tech non-literate person, she obviously didn’t think to ask them “are you talking about storage space or RAM?”
Personally, I usually specify RAM or hard drive/storage just to make sure I'm clear, because "memory" is pretty ambiguous in my experience.
TLDR is she stole peoples' identities to make Uber driver accounts and then rented those accounts to people that couldn’t legally be Uber drivers. Made a bunch of money (~750k). got fined 20k and 3 years in prison.
>247 rape reports in 2019
>141 rape reports in 2020
>5981 sexual assault incidents in 2017-2018
>3824 reports of sexual assault from 2019 to 2020
>10000 sexual assault complaints from 2017 to 2020.
> contributing factor is the lack of thorough background checks for Uber drivers. While Uber claims to conduct background checks on their drivers, there have been instances where individuals with criminal records or prior convictions have slipped through the cracks. Strengthening the screening process and regularly updating the background checks could significantly reduce the risk of sexual assault incidents.
I dont care if Uber bleeds $Billion more of VC money on signup bonuses for fake new accounts, but I do care about who delivers my open container food.