Union of ride hailing app s drivers gets mixed results in lawsuit against Uber, in bid to gain access on data about drivers. Reuters
The British drivers whose legal victory against Uber Technologies Inc. upended the UK’s gig economy, are now trying to get access to the data the ride-sharing app stores on them.
Former Uber drivers James Farrar and Yaseen Aslam, who founded the App Drivers & Couriers Union, got mixed results in an Amsterdam District Court ruling on Thursday. The court will require the ride-hailing giant to provide drivers with anonymous ratings information from riders, and additional information on two drivers whose accounts were deactivated. But the court wouldn’t give them information about how prices are calculated, notes that Uber staff add to their profiles, or require the company to pay compensation.
Uber Drivers Who Defeated Ride-Hailing App Want Their Data Back
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Warning over use of risk profiling to detect crime, fraud and debt
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Local authorities are increasingly using algorithms to try to identify potential lawbreakers such as criminal gangs and benefit fraudsters, according to a survey by NOS.
At least 25 municipalities use systems that create ‘risk profiles’ for offences that impact on council funding, as well as identifying people at risk of running up high debts.
The tax office was criticised for using dual nationality as an indicator of risk in families suspected of fraud in the childcare benefits scandal, which led to the resignation of the cabinet last month. A series of investigations found that many people were wrongly targeted and blacklisted because they made small administrative errors.
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An Uber driver wears a protective mask as he drives a car in the Queens neighborhood in New York, US. The lawsuits come as an informal global movement of gig workers has expanded in the coronavirus pandemic, with drivers and delivery workers from the United States to India staging strikes to demand better pay and working conditions. Reuters
TBILISI/BERLIN: London-based Uber driver Abdurzak Hadi is self-employed but says he is not his own boss as his workflow is determined by an obscure computer algorithm.
With the ride-hailing app deciding which – and how many – clients he gets each day, Hadi says he cannot optimise work and make more money, prompting him to join legal action against Uber that could set a precedent for all workers in the gig economy.
By Umberto Bacchi and Avi Asher-Schapiro
TBILISI/BERLIN, Dec 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – L ondon-based Uber driver Abdurzak Hadi is self-employed but says he is not his own boss as his workflow is determined by an obscure computer algorithm.
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With the ride-hailing app deciding which – and how many – clients he gets each day, Hadi says he cannot optimize work and make more money, prompting him to join legal action against Uber that could set a precedent for all workers in the gig economy.
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