October 2023 - Uber ordered to pay €584,000 in penalties for failure to comply with court order for algorithmic transparency

On October 5, the District Court of Amsterdam ruled against Uber: the company has failed to comply with the April 2023 Court of Appeal order.

The case was brought by Worker Info Exchange (WIE) in support of the App Drivers & Couriers Union (ADCU). Uber should have provided more transparency in the automated decision to dismiss two drivers from the UK and Portugal. But it didn’t.

Yesterday, the District Court “ordered that Uber has forfeited uncapped penalty payments of 4,000 euros per day, which now stands at a total of 584,000 euros.”

“The failure to comply with the order is serious,” the judge said.

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