May 8, 2017

Last Monday Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced that he’d reached an agreement with Uber, prohibiting the ride-sharing service from sending unsolicited text messages to Washington consumers. The attorney general’s office started getting complaints in 2014 from Uber customers who received unsolicited messages, including messages intended for Uber drivers. The customers said they did not know how to stop the messages, and even when they blocked the solicitations, the texts continued to come through.