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Food distribution companies banned hundreds of riders from their platforms as part of a pressure on illegal working. Deliveoo, Uber Eats and Just Eat’s 90 -day deadline, increase the use of face verification controls and fraud detection technology ended on Sunday.
It is understood that companies have previously identified a number of compliance failure between the scores of the people who were paid to deliver food to the gates of the British every day. Deliveoo spokesman said: “In the last 90 days, we have strengthened our verification process, we have increased the frequency of our controls. We also introduced randomized controls to ensure that the platform is safer.
“While these measures represent an important step forward, we will continue to invest and innovate to prevent the exploitation of the platform by a small minority of stable criminals.”
At the end of June, the companies organized a round table meeting with the Inner Office and accepted to introduce extra measures and create an industrially developed standard for security controls.
They aimed to stop the delivery riders who shared their accounts with immigrants who had no right to work in the UK.
Asylum seekers are not allowed to work in the first 12 months of being in the UK or until the asylum application is approved.
However, some immigrants in shelter hotels made money in applications.
Uber Eats and Deliveoo promised to increase the amount and complexity of their verification controls, while EAT said he would do daily controls, not monthly, but on a daily basis.
Deliveoo is understood among companies that have removed and banned hundreds of rider in the last three months.
After violating a rider’s contracts, Express designed a new tool to determine whether he was trying to support them again. This works by creating a “strong match” on previous documents.
Device identification, account changes, and face recognition improvements are also said to be.
A spokesman insisted that he was determined to develop more measures as he continued to find new ways to benefit from the delivery platforms.
Meanwhile, Just Eat said that he brought face recognition controls for delivery drivers when they complete each order.
The company spokesman said: “Only EAT is completely determined to struggle with illegal working attempts through our platform – all couriers must have the right to work in the UK.
“During the summer, we have significantly strengthened our systems against abuse, including providing daily face recognition controls for couriers when they complement the run.
“We have invested important resources to make a series of major upgrades in our application and to meet the agreed commitments.
“We continue to work closely with the Ministry of Interior and industrial partners in order to determine and address the potential methods of avoiding controls as well as cooperating on data sharing and implementation.”
A UBER EATS spokesman said: “Uber EATS is determined to struggle with illegal work and criminal networks that are often behind.
“This involves the introduction of industrial leader identity and video verification technology to combat illegal studies. We are constantly improving our processes to prevent the abuse of the platform and work closely with the government.”
The company has a number of additional hidden and registered vehicles that help them detect attempts to skip controls as well as daily real -time face verification controls.
For a comment, the Ministry of Interior was contacted.
