Uber publicly promises to treat sexual assault survivors with dignity and support. But in thousands of lawsuits filed by passengers who say they were assaulted by their drivers, the company's lawyers have taken the opposite approach – questioning survivors about what they wore, how much they drank, and painful details from their past, including childhood abuse and prior trauma. This is happening in cases where drivers have already been criminally convicted of rape. Survivors deserve to be believed, not put on trial for coming forward.
Sign the petition telling Uber to fully overhaul how it handles sexual assault lawsuits, ending these tactics and living up to its own public commitments to survivors.
Uber has built its public image around safety and support for survivors, even producing training materials that say sexual violence is never a survivor's fault. Yet its legal strategy in these cases has relied on digging through therapy records, medical history, and personal relationships to make survivors look unreliable in front of a jury.
Legal experts say this kind of questioning re-traumatizes survivors and discourages other victims from ever coming forward.
A real overhaul means more than words. It means Uber must stop working with outside lawyers who use these tactics, end the practice of probing survivors' sexual history and clothing choices, and actually apply the trauma-informed approach it claims to already follow. Uber has the resources and public commitments to do this. What has been missing is the will to follow through.
Sign the petition and demand Uber overhaul its legal practices and finally treat survivors the way it claims to.
