JAMES COMER, KENTUCKY CHAIRMAN
ONE HUNDRED NINETEENTH CONGRESS
Congress of america
Home of Representatives
COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM 2157 RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON, DC 20515-6143
MAJORITY (202) 225-5074 MINORITY (202) 225-5051 https://oversight.home.gov
ROBERT GARCIA, CALIFORNIA RANKING MEMBER
September 24, 2025
Mr. Dara Khosrowshahi
Chief Government Officer
Uber
1725 third Avenue
San Francisco, CA
Expensive Mr. Khosrowshahi:
The Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Data Expertise, and Authorities Innovation is conducting oversight of company practices and the roles of federal businesses that will impression client security. Current reporting has highlighted that Uber receives a “report of sexual assault or sexual misconduct in america virtually each eight minutes.”1 Particularly, information protection states that “from 2017 to 2022, a complete of 400,181 Uber journeys resulted in studies of sexual assault and sexual misconduct in america,” a quantity considerably increased than the 12,552 circumstances beforehand disclosed by Uber.²
This reporting and the prevalence of incidents raises questions on how Uber identifies, responds to, and discloses incidents of sexual assault and sexual misconduct on its platform. The disparity between beforehand disclosed knowledge and up to date reporting raises considerations concerning the accuracy and completeness of security knowledge.³ The Subcommittee is especially involved that underreporting or delayed disclosure of such incidents may hinder policymakers, regulation enforcement, and the general public from totally understanding the scope of the issue and making knowledgeable selections.
This concern shouldn’t be new. Sami’s Legislation, enacted in January 2023, required the U.S. Authorities Accountability Workplace (GAO) to conduct a research on the protection steps taken by ridesharing corporations associated to rider and driver security. This GAO report, launched in September 2024, discovered that at the moment accessible knowledge “can’t totally describe the extent of assaults in [ridesharing] industries.”4
1 Emily Metal, Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Downside, THE NEW YORK TIMES (Aug. 6, 2025).
2 Id.
3 U.S. Security Report, UBER, accessible at
https://uber.app.field.com/s/lea3xzb70bp2wxe3k3dgk2ghcyr687x3?uclick_id=8f4d9d3e-0ec4-41f0-99c2-
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4 U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE, GAO-24-107093, RIDESHARING AND TAXI SAFETY INFORMATION ON BACKGROUND CHECKS AND SAFETY FEATURES (September 2024).