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Payout for Uber Eats driver over face scan bias case

A black delivery driver's account was removed after facial-recognition software failed to recognise him.

When Pa Edrissa Manjang began working for Uber Eats, in November 2019, its app did not regularly ask him to send selfies in order to register for jobs. The union told BBC News it was "working hard" to ensure workers' rights were protected as "the pace of development of AI and machine-learning tools in the workplace accelerates". Mr Manjang, who was reinstated and continues to work for Uber Eats, in Oxfordshire, said the out-of-court settlement marked the end of a "long and difficult" period for him.

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