{"id":116582,"date":"2015-01-10T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T06:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=116582"},"modified":"2015-01-10T08:48:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T06:48:35","slug":"uber-driver-arrested-for-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/116582-uber-driver-arrested-for-assault.html","title":{"rendered":"Uber driver arrested for assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Uber driver was arrested in Melbourne Saturday after an alleged indecent assault on a 19-year-old female passenger on New Year&#8217;s Eve, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Victorian state police said the 31-year-old man would be charged with sex offences and unlicensed driving.<\/p>\n<p>Uber is a private taxi service operated through a smartphone app that has recently been criticised for a lack of checking on drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Uber drivers in the state of Victoria must be registered, undergo background screening and be licensed to drive a commercial vehicle.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Uber news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/116532-china-puts-up-hurdles-for-uber.html\">China puts up hurdles for Uber<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/116314-cape-town-impounds-uber-taxis.html\">Cape Town impounds Uber taxis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/116115-uber-ignores-ban-heads-to-court.html\">Uber ignores ban, heads to court<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Uber driver was arrested in Melbourne Saturday after an alleged indecent assault on a 19-year-old female passenger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":83861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2798,7979,20853],"class_list":["post-116582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-australia","tag-quicknews","tag-uber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}