Unsuspecting customers may be at risk of being attacked in their own homes by imposters delivering Uber Eats meals, an investigation has revealed. The threat was exposed after the Sunday People uncovered a racket in which accredited couriers rent their identities out to people who have not been vetted. Our female reporter spent hours delivering food using the account of a male driver who hired out his login for £125 a week, with no questions asked. Our probe follows concerns over the behaviour of some Uber taxi drivers which culminated in Transport for London scrapping the firm’s cab licence in November. One Uber cabbie subjected a woman passenger to a sex ordeal. In separate incidents, other unauthorised drivers uploaded photos to account holders’ profiles. Last night critics of Uber’s operations voiced their horror at our findings, with one saying it highlighted “ongoing failure” and another calling it “the gig economy at its worst”. Three months ago the food delivery giant vowed to crack down on security measures by introducing facial recognition technology. But our reporter bypassed checks to use the account of driver Joao Marco Raposo Brilha, 21, in defiance of a strict company ban. Brilha, who called himself “BJ”… Read full this story
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