Last week it was reported that a Black British driver is taking Uber to court alleging indirect race discrimination ...
Ride-hailing app Uber has admitted to using workers’ “behavioural patterns” to determine their pay amid long-standing conflict with drivers over algorithmic transparency. The comment, made in a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A New York law requires businesses to disclose when they're using algorithms to determine prices. Uber and DoorDash users started ...
Ride-hailing services like to market themselves to drivers as a way to work their own hours and make money on the side of other jobs. The reality of that situation hasn't always lived up to the ...
Uber drivers in the UK are suing the company in a desperate bid to learn more about the ride-hailing app’s algorithm, which governs their lives and income. The core argument of the lawsuit, Business ...
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 ...
The algorithms that underlie most Silicon Valley bigwigs are usually locked up in the name of “protecting trade secrets,” but that’s an excuse that’s starting to wear a little thin in recent months.
Uber has quietly changed the way it pays drivers in several major cities across the U.S., using a new feature it’s calling “Upfront Fares.” Instead of paying drivers for trips based on just time and ...
AT 3 A.M., SONAM LAMA'S ALARM goes off. In his house in Queens, New York, while his wife and baby son sleep, he pulls on his clothes and makes coffee. Then he turns on his Uber app and waits. On this ...
A new law in New York requires businesses, including Uber and Lyft, to disclose when they're using algorithms to set prices.Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images New Yorkers got a little more ...