Irish Examiner view: Taxi allegations are uber serious 

For now, the Irish taste for regulation has prevented the inexorable march of Uber but will that always be the case?

A cache of 124,000 internal files were leaked. Picture: Laura Dale/PA Wire

Amidst the swathe of allegations about how the taxi technology company Uber conquered many of the world’s city and road networks is one that tells us much about the levels of surveillance to which we can now be subjected.

The Irish lobbyist Mark MacGann, who was born in Longford and raised in Roscommon, has been revealed as the whistleblower behind the leaking of files which expose the high-level manoeuvrings and political heft applied to stimulate the explosive growth of California-based Uber globally.