550 women in the United States have collectively prosecuted Uber, and have been sexually assaulted by the platform online car driver

Jimu News reporter Huang Jiaqi

Intern Zhao Wenbo

According to the Broadcasting Corporation reported on July 14, as many as 550 women in the United States said that they were sexually assaulted by the driver on the Uber -car rental platform, and they collectively prosecuted Uber. Uber executives broke the news that Uber platform lacks the background investigation of drivers, and even conceal the fact that the driver sexually assaulted women.

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On July 13, local time, about 550 women in the United States collectively commissioned law firms to submit lawsuit documents to the court. The litigation documents list a number of allegations, including female passengers' abduction, sexual assault, beating, rape, illegal imprisonment, tracking, harassment and other personal attacks such as the driver of the Uber -Rating platform ".

The law firm stated that the sexual assault involved in the allegations occurred in many states in the United States, and at least 150 potential cases were being investigated.

In June this year, Uber released the U.S. Security Report. The report shows that from 2019 to 2020, the company received 3824 serious sexual assault reports. In 2020, the Uber.com ride -hailing platform recorded a total of 998 sexual assault incidents, including 141 rape cases.

In response to the incident, Uber -spokesman said that Uber established a new security function and formulated a passenger -centered policy. Uber will continue to take passenger safety as the top priority of work.

However, the lawyer of this lawsuit believes that as early as 2014, Uber realized that the driver had sexual assault and rape against female passengers, but it did not take severe measures to supervise it. Customer safety.

The lawyer Adam Slyt said: "Uber's entire business model is based on the premise of allowing passengers to go home safely, but the company never pays attention to passengers' security issues. The price. "

On July 11, local time, a former executive of Uber made a number of misconduct allegations to the company. The evidence provided by the former executive shows that Uber Headquarters has a "special control switch". Once a law enforcement department comes to investigate, this "switch" will be opened, and key information can be wiped away from police investigation.

In addition, the former Uber executive claimed in the allegations that Uber lacked the background investigation of the platform driver, and even deliberately concealed the fact that the platform drivers sexually assaulted women.

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