Incident 355: Uber Allegedly Wrongfully Accused Drivers of Fraud via Automated Systems
Description: Uber was alleged in a lawsuit to have wrongfully accused its drivers in the UK and Portugal of fraudulent activity through automated systems, which resulted in their dismissal without a right to appeal.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Uber developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Uber drivers.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
355
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2018-07-07
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
A group of U.K. Uber drivers has launched a legal challenge against the company’s subsidiary in the Netherlands. The complaints relate to access to personal data and algorithmic accountability.
Uber drivers and Uber Eats couriers are being …
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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.
