Dec 3, 2021
Uber to pay $9m in sex-assault report settlement
Uber is to pay $9m to settle a complaint over its sexual-assault and harassment reporting in California. The settlement between Uber, CPUC, and the Rape Abuse and Incest National Network brings to an end a dispute lasting almost two years, over whether Uber should hand over records about reported incidents involving its drivers. Uber had argued that disclosing such records publicly could be traumatic for those who had been assaulted and might discourage reports in the future - particularly because CPUC was asking for the names of all "Witnesses" - which would include those attacked. In December 2020, a year on, CPUC initially fined Uber $59m for refusing to comply. The first report showed that Uber had nearly 6,000 reports of sexual assault in 2017 and 2018 - a number the company pointed out was a tiny fraction of the more than two billion rides it provided in that time.
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