{"id":200060,"date":"2021-03-11T22:57:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T19:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/uber-lyft-team-up-on-database-to-expose-abusive-drivers\/"},"modified":"2021-03-11T22:57:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T19:57:36","slug":"uber-lyft-team-up-on-database-to-expose-abusive-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/uber-lyft-team-up-on-database-to-expose-abusive-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"#Uber, Lyft team up on database to expose abusive drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Uber, Lyft team up on database to expose abusive drivers<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Uber and Lyft have teamed up to create a database of drivers ousted from their ride-hailing services for complaints about sexual assault and other crimes that have raised passenger-safety concerns for years.<\/p>\n

The clearinghouse unveiled Thursday will initially list drivers expelled by the ride-hailing rivals in the US. But it will also be open to other companies that deploy workers to perform services such as delivering groceries or take-out orders from restaurants<\/p>\n

The new safeguard, dubbed the \u201csharing safety program,\u201d will be overseen by\u00a0HireRight<\/a>, a specialist in background checks. The use of a third party is aimed at addressing potential legal concerns about companies, including competitors such as Uber and Lyft, having access to information to each other\u2019s personnel matters.<\/p>\n

\u201cLyft and Uber are competitors in a whole lot of ways, but on this issue of safety, we completely agree that folks should be safe no matter what platform they choose,\u201d Tony West, Uber\u2019s chief legal officer, told The Associated Press. He spoke in an interview that also included Jennifer Brandenburger, Lyft\u2019s head of policy development.<\/p>\n

The safety program follows through on a promise that Uber made 15 months ago when it revealed that\u00a0more than 3,000 sexual assaults\u00a0<\/a>had been reported on its service in the US during 2018.<\/p>\n

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Uber and Lyft signage directing travel<\/a>ers at Boston\u2019s Logan Airport.<\/figcaption>
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Since that revelation, San Francisco-based Uber and Lyft have been working to navigate through antitrust and privacy concerns to create a way to flag drivers who have engaged in violent or other abhorrent behavior that culminated in them being booted off their services.<\/p>\n

Sharing the information about reported sexual assaults is considered especially important because victims of such crimes frequently don\u2019t file formal complaints with police. That gap has opened a crack for potentially dangerous drivers to slip through routine background checks drawing upon legal records, Brandenburger said.<\/p>\n

To protect privacy, no passenger information will be shared in the database and the incidents that resulted in a driver\u2019s dismissal will be listed in six broad categories: attempted non-consensual sexual penetration; non-consensual touching of a sexual body part; non-consensual kissing of a sexual body part; non-consensual kissing of a non-sexual body part; non-consensual sexual penetration; and fatal physical assaults.<\/p>\n

Only a \u201cfraction of a fraction\u201d of drivers have engaged in behavior that fall into those categories, West said. Any company with access to the clearinghouse of information could still decide to allow a driver on its service after its own investigation, West said.<\/p>\n

The added layer of protection was hailed by the Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network, a victims\u2019 rights group that has criticized the ride-hailing services for not doing more rigorous screening of their drivers.<\/p>\n

\u201cSexual violence thrives in secrecy,\u201d said Scott Berkowitz, the network\u2019s president. \u201cThanks to this initiative, perpetrators will no longer be able to hide or escape accountability by simply switching ridesharing platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n

It could also help app<\/a>ease US lawmakers,\u00a0who have criticized Uber and Lyft in the past\u00a0<\/a>for inadequate safety protections for their riders.<\/p>\n

Lyft hasn\u2019t delivered on its promise to release a report about past problems on its service because the company is waiting for Uber to resolve a privacy dispute with California regulators, according to Bradenburger.<\/p>\n

After Uber detailed past abuses on its service in its December 2019 report, California\u2019s Public Utilities Commission sought the victims\u2019 names and contact numbers. After Uber rebuffed the request to protect the victims\u2019 privacy, the agency slapped the company with a $59 million fine. The dispute is now in the appeals process.<\/p>\n

The safety feature is rolling out at a time when both ride-hailing services are still trying to rebound from the pandemic-driven lockdowns that have prevented people from traveling and curtailed demand for rides, especially from strangers.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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