A California court ordered Uber and Lyft to treat drivers as employees following the California law which says they are. This is not a final decision, however, and I expect those companies will appeal all the way to the Supreme Court. Treating their drivers as employees — where they do so — can greatly reduce the way those companies mistreat their drivers. It does nothing to correct the injustices they do to all customers: making them run nonfree software, making them identify themselves, and making a dossier about the movements of each one. These injustices are the essential reasons to reject those dis-services.

As long as they continue, I refuse to get into an Uber car even if someone else booked the ride.