Incident 265: Black Uber Eats Driver Allegedly Subjected to Excessive Photo Checks and Dismissed via FRT Results
Description: A lawsuit by a former Uber Eats delivery driver alleged the company to have wrongfully dismissed him due to frequent false mismatches of his verification selfies, and discriminated against him via excessive verification checks.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Uber Eats developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Pa Edrissa Manjang and Uber Eats Black delivery drivers.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
265
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2021-04-01
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
A delivery driver who is suing Uber Eats in London over his dismissal from the company and claims its facial recognition technology is racially biased says the company treats couriers as “numbers rather than humans”.
Pa Edrissa Manjang work…
A former Uber Eats courier has brought legal action against the food delivery company, alleging he was unfairly dismissed because of the company’s “racist” facial recognition software.
Uber Eats drivers are required to take a selfie before …
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.