The NY Times reports that:
Uber has for years engaged in a worldwide program to deceive the authorities in markets where its low-cost ride-hailing service was being resisted by law enforcement or, in some instances, had been outright banned.
The program, involving a tool called Greyball, uses data collected from the Uber app and other techniques to identify and circumvent officials. Uber used these methods to evade the authorities in cities such as Boston, Paris and Las Vegas, and in countries like Australia, China, Italy and South Korea. ...
Uber has long flouted laws and regulations to gain an edge against entrenched transportation providers, a modus operandi that has helped propel it into more than 70 countries and to a valuation close to $70 billion.
I discussed the corporate law issues raised when boards of directors allow the corporation to act illegally (or fail to detect that managers are allowing the company to do so), in two earlier posts:
Can directors of corporations be held liable to shareholders when the corporation breaks the law
Personally, I still think the business judgment rule ought to apply to these cases.