The co-founder of ride-sharing company Uber, Travis Kalanick, and the company’s directors won a dismissal of a lawsuit brought by major investors who sought to hold the company liable for a delay in the company’s push into autonomous vehicles caused by a fight over trade secrets.
Uber reached a $20 million preliminary settlement agreement in a class action lawsuit over how the company classifies its drivers. The case involved drivers from California and Massachusetts who disagreed with Uber’s policy of classifying its drivers as independent contractors. Classifying drivers as contractors lowers
The Noida Police lodged an FIR against cab aggregator Uber citing negligence by not having a real-time monitoring system and proper police verification of its drivers, officials said. The company said it was yet to receive a copy of the FIR and stressed that safety was
The UK Information Commissioners Office (ICO) and the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Dutch DPA) on Tuesday fined Uber £385,000 and €600,000, respectively, over a 2016 data breach that exposed the sensitive data of more than 57 million of its users worldwide. According to UK officials, between October 13 and November
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that Uber Technologies Inc. can require arbitration in a lawsuit brought by former and current Uber drivers over Uber’s classification of the drivers as independent contractors. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit argued that the arbitration agreements were unenforceable because the
A blind woman said an Uber driver abruptly left her on the side of a Rio de Janeiro street last week after loudly berating her over her request that he turn down the car’s air conditioning, the latest safety incident involving the ride-hailing firm. Nathalia
A federal judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania [official website] on Thursday has found [opinion, PDF] that Uber limousine drivers are independent contractors and not employees for the purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) [materials] and similar Pennsylvania state laws. The plaintiffs
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) [official website] on Tuesday ruled [judgment] that the French government may proceed with a case in which local Uber managers are facing criminal charges for running an illegal taxicab service. In 2014, the French government passed a law [Loi No.2014-1104 text, in French] prohibiting taxi
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Tuesday rejected a claim by a number of Philadelphia taxi companies and the Philadelphia Taxi Association that Uber Technologies was violating antitrust laws. The companies were accusing Uber of trying to monopolize the taxi market in the area
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro on Monday filed a lawsuit against Uber for violating the state’s Breach of Personal Information Notification Act . “Uber violated Pennsylvania law by failing to put our residents on timely notice of this massive data breach,” said Shapiro [official press release]. “Uber hid the incident for over a year