About 550 American women presented this Wednesday a lawsuit against the shared transport company Uber for having been assaulted by drivers when they were inside vehicles contracted through the platform.
As reported in a statement by the law firm ‘Slater Slater Schulman, LLP’, the lawsuit was filed in the courts of San Francisco (California, USA), where Uber is based.
“The passengers were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, beaten, raped, chased, harassed and attacked by Uber drivers to whom they had been assigned through the application,” the lawyers explained.
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The lawsuit ensures that the San Francisco firm has been aware that some of its drivers were committing sexual assaults and rapes of female passengers since 2014, but despite this “Sexual predators” who drive for Uber have continued to attack female passengers to this day.
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The shared transport company has been facing the courts for years for the illicit behavior of its drivers, especially for assaults on women.
In the latest edition of its security report, published in early June, Uber said it received 3,824 complaints of serious sexual assault in 2019 and 2020., which ranged from non-consensual kisses to rape. This figure is 38% lower than that registered between 2017 and 2018.
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This Monday it was learned that former Uber lobbyist Mark MacGann is behind the leak of documents from the car-sharing platform that show the company’s controversial practices around the world.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) explained in a statement that the former Uber lobbyist in Europe leaked 18.69 gigabytes of emails, text messages and internal documents from the platform to the British newspaper The Guardian.
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These documents were shared by the newspaper with the ICIJ and its network of collaborators, to which international media outlets belong.
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Leaked documents show how company executives tried to influence politicians to get favors; they negotiated investment contracts with Russian oligarchs, now sanctioned; and took advantage of the violence against Uber drivers to get it regulated in favor of the firm.
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