The US authorities accuse the car reservation service with driver for smartphone Uber lying on the reliability of background checks of its drivers, which let criminals, in a complaint filed Wednesday, August 19th in San Francisco.
Prosecutors in San Francisco and Los Angeles will establish a list of 25 people who were discovered while driving for Uber despite court sentences, including a murderer who spent 26 years in prison and pedophiles.
“Nothing to Los Angeles, registered sex offenders, a kidnapper, identity thieves, burglars, and a convicted murderer spent controls + + peak in the Uber sector” they write.
These conductors were initially pinned for illegally embarked passengers at the airport or on the street, they said.
The complaint evokes false statements or Uber misleading that are “likely to harm consumers believe qu’Uber done all it can to ensure their safety and that background checks by Uber will spot all the criminal past of a candidate”.
The company employed by the control methods according to them are much less secure than those used for the traditional drivers of taxis in major cities of California, particularly failing to ensure the real identity the aspiring driver checking fingerprints.
“Security is a priority”
“The misleading representations Uber represent a particular danger public safety given the well-documented phenomenon of parents who send their child unaccompanied teenagers in Uber vehicles, “to go from school to sports training or music lessons for example, notes the complaint.
The authorities are demanding an end to alleged practices and financial penalties.
Uber agrees with the authorities that “security is a priority,” but denies the superiority of Livescan system used by companies taxis compared to its own methods of control, reacted one of its spokesmen. “The reality is that none (two systems) is 100% sure.”
She stressed that the checks carried out by Uber on “hundreds of people” had particularly helped flush out convictions for driving while intoxicated, rape, attempted murder, child abuse or violence, while Livescan “includes people who were arrested but not yet charged or convicted, which may create discrimination against minorities” .
“We are eager to solve this problem,” said the spokesman, noting that the Lyft competitor had set “an almost similar case” last year by agreeing to pay $ 250,000.
Uber is one of the most unlisted startups to Silicon Valley, but its rapid growth has created controversy over the competition it represents to traditional taxis, as well as its security.
(With AFP)
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