Canberra: An Australian court has imposed a fine of 14 million dollars on ride-sharing app Uber for charging high fares.
According to foreign media reports, an Australian court on Wednesday fined American ride-sharing app Uber Technologies A$21 million ($14 million) for charging users higher fares and threatening to charge cancellation fees for non-payment. A fine of US Dollars) was imposed.
The Australian court said that Uber Technologies violated consumer laws by misleading customers about the fare.
According to the court, Uber threatened to charge certain users for canceling trips between 2017 and 2021, and used faulty software to charge higher fares until August 2020.
The case against Uber was filed by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), which sought more than the fine imposed.
Uber also apologized for its mistake to the Australian public on its website.
According to the ruling written by Judge Michael Huff O’Brien, Uber’s software overstated the actual fare by 89 percent, but less than 1 percent (0.5) of the total number of users using Uber’s taxi services. used it, for which the court fined the company less, although Uber agreed to pay US$17.39 million.
The judge also said in remarks that “by providing false information on its smartphone app, Uber likely believed it would persuade a large number of customers to change their decision to cancel a trip.” , so they will refrain from canceling rides in future.”
