A woman was banned from using any Uber services for her unusual first name.
Swastika Chandra explained her first name meant ‘good luck’ in Sanskrit and where she grew up in Fiji it was a common name, but Uber suddenly banned her account in October last year due to it being a “potentially offensive” word.
“They don’t know that the Hindus used it for thousands of years before Hitler used it in the wrong way,” she said. In a statement to news.com.au, Uber said it had apologised to Ms Chandra and acknowledged its review of the matter took longer than it wanted.
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