California prosecutors alleged that the ride hailing app misled passengers about its drivers' background checks.
Passengers faced difficulties in booking cabs as the platform showed fares to be as high as 5 times than the normal fare.
San Francisco: Ridesharing service Uber on Friday said it agreed to pay $10 million to settle a California lawsuit accusing it of misleading the public about the thoroughness of its driver background checks.
The lawsuit, which was filed jointly by district attorneys in San Francisco and Los Angeles, accused Uber of using misleading advertising to make the background checks sound better than they were and of picking up passengers at airports without proper authorisation.
“Uber has agreed to pay $10 million as part of this settlement, as well as to address a number of advertising and airport-related issues — many of which we have already dealt with,” Uber said on its blog.
( Source : AFP )
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