Uber Eats has settled a legal claim with a driver, Pa Edrissa Manjang, over allegations of racial discrimination in the platform's facial recognition checks. The driver was removed in 2021, leading to the payout. The company faced a class action lawsuit and settled for $270 million.
Uber should have listened to @timnitGebru and @emilymbender. It's bad enough to use AI overwhelmingly trained on data sets with white faces, and worse to allow automatic dismissals based on that AI. Your employees are human(s). Treat them as such. https://t.co/4VAUrOoVsv
Uber has settled a class action lawsuit for $270 million — what was it accused of? https://t.co/IYsKMapNEL
Uber Eats driver wins payout over discriminatory facial recognition checks https://t.co/1EnbAt1BiC
Uber Eats has made a payout to a courier to end a legal claim over allegations that he was unfairly sacked because the delivery company’s facial recognition app is racist ⬇️ https://t.co/6x4MpVoSC4
An Uber Eats driver has received a payout to end a legal claim following allegations that the platform’s AI-powered facial recognition checks required to work for the delivery firm were racially discriminatory. In 2021, Pa Edrissa Manjang was told he was being removed from… https://t.co/r0dbhM8ruS