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Litigation

Jan. 6, 2015

Uber hit with lawsuit claiming it is illegally hounding people with text messages

The popular mobile app-enabled taxi service is using texts to recruit drivers in violation of the Telephone Consumer Privacy Act, lawsuit alleges.


By Fiona Smith


Daily Journal Staff Writer


San Francisco-based Uber Technologies Inc. has been breaking down barriers in the taxi industry with its mobile phone-enabled car service, but its aggressive moves are bringing accusations that it's also breaking the law. In the latest of several lawsuits Uber is fighting off, the company has been hit with a proposed class action lawsuit alleging the company is hounding people with text messages seeking to r...

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