{"id":933152,"date":"2025-05-23T08:18:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T02:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=933152"},"modified":"2025-05-23T08:36:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T03:06:22","slug":"consumer-affairs-minister-slams-ubers-advance-tip-feature-as-unethical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/23\/consumer-affairs-minister-slams-ubers-advance-tip-feature-as-unethical\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer affairs minister slams Uber\u2019s \u2018Advance Tip\u2019 feature as unethical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Consumer Affairs, Pralhad Joshi, on Wednesday criticized ride-hailing platform Uber for its Advance Tip feature, calling it \u201cunethical and exploitative.\u201d The feature, which prompts users to offer a tip in advance in exchange for quicker service, has sparked regulatory scrutiny. <\/p>\n<p>In a social media post, Joshi said he had directed the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) to examine the matter. Following his instruction, the CCPA issued a notice to Uber seeking a formal explanation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Consumer Affairs, Pralhad Joshi, on Wednesday criticized ride-hailing platform Uber for its Advance Tip feature, calling it \u201cunethical and exploitative.\u201d The feature, which prompts users to offer a tip in advance in exchange for quicker service, has sparked regulatory scrutiny. In a social media post, Joshi said he had directed the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) to examine the matter. Following his instruction, the CCPA issued a notice to Uber seeking a formal explanation.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933152","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=933152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}