Between 2017 and 2022, 400,181 Uber trips resulted in reports of sexual assault or sexual misconduct in the US, or around one every eight minutes, according to sealed documents seen by The New York Times. The company had only disclosed 12,522 accounts of serious sexual assaults during the same time period. The report is based on interviews with current a former employees, internal documents and court records under seal as part of “large-scale sexual assault litigation against Uber.”
“There is no ‘tolerable’ level of sexual assault,” Uber’s US head of safety Hanna Nilles told the NYT. She added that
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