{"id":933140,"date":"2025-05-23T08:02:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T02:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=933140"},"modified":"2025-05-23T08:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T02:52:06","slug":"pay-more-get-picked-up-faster-ubers-advanced-tip-feature-sparks-govt-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/23\/pay-more-get-picked-up-faster-ubers-advanced-tip-feature-sparks-govt-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pay more, get picked up faster?\u2019 \u2013 Uber\u2019s advanced tip feature sparks govt backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA), India\u2019s apex consumer rights body, has issued a formal notice to ride-hailing giant Uber over its contentious \u201cadvance tip\u201d feature, which allegedly incentivises customers to pay a tip upfront in exchange for quicker ride confirmations. The move follows direct intervention from Union Consumer Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi, who has labelled the practice as unethical and a violation of fair trade norms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA), India\u2019s apex consumer rights body, has issued a formal notice to ride-hailing giant Uber over its contentious \u201cadvance tip\u201d feature, which allegedly incentivises customers to pay a tip upfront in exchange for quicker ride confirmations. The move follows direct intervention from Union Consumer Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi, who has labelled the practice as unethical and a violation of fair trade norms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}