Seems like a reasonable way to prevent overly-broad fishing by law enforcement. If they have a warrant they can request information through legal channels.
Uber has already been seen to act adversarial to law enforcement, raids are utilized to try and limit Uber's ability to conceal information. I have no doubt in my mind that Uber would willingly fail to comply to requests for information.
The mirror image of your argument is just as applicable:
Law enforcement has already been seen to act adversarial to private interests, remotely logging out of computers is utilized to try and limit law enforcement's ability to obtain information beyond the scope of a warrant. There is little doubt that law enforcement would willingly take information beyond the scope of the warrant and later find a way to use it against them.
Really? By that logic the private interest of a lot of non-white drivers of staying alive must be against the law. The time for hero worship and blind trust is over.
>> When the call came in, staffers quickly remotely logged off every computer in the Montreal office, making it practically impossible for the authorities to retrieve the company records they’d obtained a warrant to collect. The investigators left without any evidence.