Uber Fired Asia Pacific Head For Secretly Collecting Data of Rape Victim
Ride-hailing company Uber has fired a top executive who had allegedly obtained medical records of a 26-year-old woman raped by an Uber driver in India in 2014, according to a media report.
Eric Alexander, the president of business in the Asia Pacific, was fired on Tuesday, just as the company announced that it had fired 20 employees over the last few months for harassment, discrimination and inappropriate behaviour.
Alexander had obtained the medical records of the woman, who was raped and assaulted by Uber driver Shiv Kumar Yadav in New Delhi in December 2014, a report in the technology news website Recode said.
The report quoted sources as saying Alexander had showed the medical records to "Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Senior Vice-President Emil Michael".
Further, numerous execut...