{"id":117422,"date":"2015-01-23T07:22:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T05:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=117422"},"modified":"2015-01-23T07:23:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T05:23:57","slug":"uber-faces-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/117422-uber-faces-ban.html","title":{"rendered":"Uber faces ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two months after the ride-hailing app Uber was introduced in Denmark, the country&#8217;s transport minister has said the service likely will be banned because it violates Danish law.<\/p>\n<p>Magnus Heunicke says the concept of car drivers acting like taxi chauffeurs and communicating with potential customers via a mobile application was &#8220;contrary &#8230; to what we can be allowed in Denmark.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Heunicke said Thursday he was not opposed to the ides of the service but that Denmark has &#8220;clear requirements&#8221; for ensuring consumer safety and the training of employees.<\/p>\n<p>A formal ban is subject to the outcome of a police investigation, instigated by the Danish Transport Authority which reported it to the police after the service opened in November.<\/p>\n<p>Uber has been banned in several countries and cities in Europe.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Uber news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/116538-price-shootout-uber-versus-normal-taxis.html\">Price shootout: Uber versus normal taxis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/116582-uber-driver-arrested-for-assault.html\">Uber driver arrested for assault<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/116532-china-puts-up-hurdles-for-uber.html\">China puts up hurdles for Uber<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months after the ride-hailing app Uber was introduced in Denmark, the country&#8217;s transport minister has said the service likely will be banned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":83861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,27813,20853],"class_list":["post-117422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-denmark","tag-uber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}