# Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses criticism of Uber's background checks

1 Faculty News August 20, 2015 ![Los Angeles Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032838.jpg?itok=d4eVwIbD)>

Excerpt from [Los Angeles Times](http://www.latimes.com/local/cityhall/la-me-uber-criminal-drivers-20150821-story.html) -- "As agencies scrutinize Uber's background checks, [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a professor of business at New York University, said they also should evaluate the effectiveness of taxi driver screening. 'If people say Uber missed a certain fraction of drivers, how frequently does this happen with government regulators?' said Sundararajan, who studies the sharing economy. 'Are they perfect? Or do they sometimes miss this?'"

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