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Over a month after a passenger was allegedly raped by one of its drivers in the capital city of New Delhi, Uber announced that it has teamed up with screening company First Advantage to implement more stringent background checks on all its drivers. Uber says in a blog post that its arrangement with First Advantage will cover address verification, a local criminal court search, and a national criminal database search — over and above standard transport license checks for its drivers. The company says that it has been pilot testing the new screening process in recent weeks, and that thousands of driver-partners…

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