{"id":15941,"date":"2017-11-29T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15941"},"modified":"2017-12-07T06:55:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T11:55:48","slug":"in-nigeria-fake-gps-readings-are-being-used-to-boost-uber-fares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/in-nigeria-fake-gps-readings-are-being-used-to-boost-uber-fares\/","title":{"rendered":"In Nigeria Fake GPS Readings Are Being Used To Boost Uber Fares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/112917_0307_InNigeriaFa1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yemisi Adegoke wrote about Uber in Nigeria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Uber drivers in Nigeria are using an app that feeds fake GPS data into Uber&#8217;s tracking system, making the trip seem longer than it was.<\/li>\n<li>The abuse ranges from a few extra dollars per trip, to costs that are an order of magnitude higher than what the fare would have been.<\/li>\n<li>Drivers in Nigeria say that it&#8217;s a reaction to Uber slashing its base fare by 40% in May.<\/li>\n<li>Nigeria is emerging from a recession and continues to struggle with inflation driving up food prices, even as the country suffers from extreme poverty.<\/li>\n<li>The drivers allege that Uber knows about their manipulation \u2013 but doesn&#8217;t have an incentive to stop them since it means more revenue for them. Uber denies this.<\/li>\n<li>Uber&#8217;s competitors have figured out ways to block the use of GPS hackers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1127853\/uber-drivers-in-lagos-nigeria-use-fake-lockito-app-to-boost-fares\/\">Quartz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemisi Adegoke wrote about Uber in Nigeria: Uber drivers in Nigeria are using an app that feeds fake GPS data into Uber&#8217;s tracking system, making the trip seem longer than it was. The abuse ranges from a few extra dollars per trip, to costs that are an order of magnitude higher than what the fare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/112917_0307_InNigeriaFa1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15944,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15941\/revisions\/15944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}