Yandex.Taxi suspected of espionage

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The project is Gettaxi, is engaged in passenger traffic, filed a petition to FAS Russia to conduct verification of his rival in the face of domestic Yandex.Taxi. The clause says that a domestic project deals with the surveillance of users by collecting data about them.

The focus was the application Yandex.A taxi, which after installation on the smartphone starts to collect data about the owner of the gadget and send them to the Yandex servers. Among other things, utility monitors the list of installed software, and if you have applications from competitors, believe in Gett, automatically offers lower prices for travel. Thus Yandex.Taxi luring customers and competes.

Yandex already aware of the situation and denies the accusations, stressing that the application Yandex.Taxi receives exactly the same information about the user, and the utility from Gett, and no more, hence, there is no competition law, the domestic Internet giant does not break. The FAS has so far refused to comment on the situation, however, the complaint will be considered in any case. If it turns out that Gett has provided false information, she immediately arrives in court for libel on a large scale.

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