It’s somewhat less egregious than the Disney case (where the TOS for video streaming was completely unrelated to the event being sued over), but egregious in completely different way. Uber, like pretty much every other company with a TOS is saying, “Sure, you may have signed up with one set of terms of service, but we can replace them on a whim, and it doesn’t matter that the person who subsequently clicked on ‘I accept’ wasn’t you, because we made it clear they had changed. Also, it’s not like anyone reads these things - they’re designed to be impenetrable and too long to get through.”
I expect pretty much any company with the ability to do harm to us either has done this is or trying to figure out a way to do so. I wonder if the shift to online services for things that don’t remotely require them is part of this. A company may not be able to force a contract on you when you buy a physical product, but make customers go online to activate/access some product feature and voila, you can force a TOS on them!
