1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Uber Eats treats couriers as ‘numbers not humans’ says former driver

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A former Uber Eats courier is suing the company over his dismissal, accusing the business of operating racially biased facial recognition technology and treating drivers as “numbers rather than humans”.…

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