A major new investigation by The Guardian and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has revealed how Uber secretly lobbied governments and flouted laws to ruthlessly grow and expand across the globe. The probe is based on 124,000 leaked internal documents, including many from France which show how Emmanuel Macron signed a secret deal when he was the French economy minister to help Uber’s lobbying efforts. The leaked documents also show Uber helped evade government regulators by using a “kill switch” during raids to prevent police from obtaining internal data.