Uber, Group Against Child Exploitation Announce Partnership To Help Drivers

Uber announced a partnership with ECPAT-USA, a group that fights the commercial, sexual exploitation of children. The transportation company was expected to sign a voluntary guidelines "focused on helping travel and tourism companies prevent child sex tourism and trafficking of children," Uber said in a Wednesday news release. It said that it's the first company in the sharing economy to take the ECPAT-USA pledge. Uber said it will share educational materials and update online resource pages "that describe physical and behavioral indicators" of exploited children with the company's drivers. Drivers can also get expert resources from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and National Human Trafficking Resource Center, Uber said. ECPAT is an acronym for end childhood prostitution and trafficking.