Uber drivers are suing for their data and it has big implications for the $200 billion gig economy
Former Uber drivers Yaseen Aslam and James Farrar, who took Uber to court in the UK over driver rights.Drivers for ride hailing giant Uber are suing the firm in Europe to access their data, arguing that the app uses different markers to determine who gets the best jobs.
According to one former driver involved in the suits, James Farrar, obtaining information could be a key mechanism to enable gig economy workers to organize.Uber is facing an uprising from drivers in Europe who want both increased stability and greater freedom, demanding stronger employment rights and access to their data respectively.
James Farrar is a former Uber driver who is involved with both legal cases. He's now the founder of Worker Info Exchange, an organization that aims to help gig economy workers in Europe obtain their data. "Uber gives me work but also I'm obliged to do that work for Uber," says Farrar. "Uber will say you can cancel the job if you like, but you can't do that without incurring some kind of a penalty. If I was truly self-employed I could cancel all the work I wanted to, it wouldn't make any difference, it's my choice."
"It's all about the distribution of power. So Uber is exerting control through data and automated decision making and it's blocking the access to that," he says, adding that this is a problem throughout the gig economy. "If Uber is forced by the courts to provide more data, this will contribute to workers' rights, to balancing this power relation.
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