Alexander sued Whetstone but lost

In September 2018, Eric Alexander filed suit against Rachel Whetstone, alleging that she had violated a reciprocal non-disparagement clause in her severance agreement with Uber. In particular, Alexander alleged that Whetstone spread false, misleading, and disparaging information about Alexander’s response to the rape in India — which he says were the cause of his termination from Uber. Alexander also accused Whetstone of making a variety of racist comments, claimed that Whetstone incorrectly asserted he stole the rape victim’s medical file and bribed Indian authorities to get that file, and claimed that Whetstone said she would “ruin [his] career” by telling investigator Eric Holder about supposed misconduct.  Alexander argued that these statements were false and defamatory.

Whetstone argued, among other things, that a severance agreement required all disputes to be resolved through arbitration, not litigation. The court granted her motion to compel arbitration. In February 2023, the court entered judgment for Whetstone.

Obtained medical records of a customer

After an unnamed customer reported being raped by an Uber driver in India in December 2014, Uber executive Eric Alexander obtained her medical records and showed them to CEO Travis Kalanick and SVP Emil Michael.  As of June 2017, Alexander had left Uber.

In a June 2017 lawsuit, the customer filed a lawsuit against Uber as well as Alexander, Kalanick, and Michael for intrusion into private affairs, public disclosure of private facts, and defamation. In addition to noting the impropriety of Uber managers obtaining and examining her medical records without her consent, she flagged the inconsistency between Uber’s public claims (“We will do everything … to help bring this perpetrator to justice and to support the victim”) and its actual action.