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Uber's challenge to balance driver safety with customer privacy

By Tina Bellon

Mar 11 2020 1:01PM

Complicated by independent contractor designation.

Uber's challenge to balance driver safety with customer privacy

Margaret Bordelon can still feel the hands of the drunk man who tried to pull her in for a kiss at the end of his Uber ride last September in Lafayette, Louisiana. An Uber driver for only a few months, Bordelon, 45, finally convinced the customer to let her go. Since he booked the ride ...

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