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James Farrar
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03 · Background
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Irish-born platform-worker organiser and digital-rights advocate, founder and director of Worker Info Exchange and co-lead claimant in Aslam & Farrar v Uber, the multi-year UK case that established gig drivers as workers rather than independent contractors. Born in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Farrar worked previously at SAP and at the transparency NGO Global Witness before becoming an Uber driver in 2014; after losing his account to a star-rating downgrade he could not contest, he and Yaseen Aslam organised United Private Hire Drivers (UPHD) as an unincorporated drivers' association in 2015, joined the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain as the UPHD branch in 2017, and after a 2020 disaffiliation registered the App Drivers and Couriers Union (ADCU) as an independent UK trade union in July 2020, with Farrar as general secretary and Aslam as president.
His original 2016 GDPR data access request against Uber is the documented origin of the worker-data-rights agenda that became Worker Info Exchange: he and Aslam were lead claimants in the Central London Employment Tribunal's 28 October 2016 ruling that Uber drivers were "workers" under UK law, and the case ran through the Employment Appeal Tribunal and Court of Appeal to the UK Supreme Court's unanimous February 2021 affirmation. Farrar incorporated Worker Info Exchange Limited on 19 October 2018, with WIE's current operational organisation publicly active since 2020 and paired with Stichting WIE International for collective-redress litigation under Netherlands law. Farrar has co-authored WIE's Managed by Bots report and is the named claimant or spokesperson for the linked Amsterdam Court of Appeal robo-firing judgments against Uber and Ola Cabs and for Stichting WIE International's 2025 collective claim against Uber's dynamic pay-setting algorithm.
04 · Sources
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workerinfoexchange.org
Checked 2026-05-18Worker Info Exchange's own team page — primary source for Farrar as Founder and Director of WIE, his identification as the key claimant in the UK Supreme Court Aslam & Farrar v Uber case decided in 2021, and his founding of WIE to address "surveillance and hidden unfair algorithmic management" in the gig economy
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reshapingwork.net
Checked 2026-05-18Reshaping Work speaker page (Farrar appeared as Roundtable leader) — primary-style first-person bio confirming Farrar as Founder and Director of WIE, as co-lead claimant in the 2016 Uber UK worker-rights case, and as having "a long career variously in technology and advocacy working previously for software giant SAP and pioneering transparency NGO Global Witness"
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judiciary.uk
Checked 2026-05-18UK judiciary's published reasons in Aslam and Farrar v Uber, Central London Employment Tribunal, dated 28 October 2016 — primary source for Farrar as named co-lead claimant and for the first-instance ruling that Uber drivers were "workers" under UK employment law
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opensocietyfoundations.org
Checked 2026-05-18Open Society Foundations Q&A with Farrar — primary-style interview source for his prior career at a major software company before becoming an Uber driver in 2014, his original 2016 GDPR data access request against Uber as the origin of WIE, and his formation of the first dedicated UK trade union for private-hire minicab drivers within the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain
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tbd.community
Checked 2026-05-18TBD Community feature on Farrar and WIE produced with OSF — independent secondary source corroborating Farrar's 2016 GDPR data access request against Uber as the origin of his data-rights organising, and his identification as founder of WIE
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irishpost.com
Checked 2026-05-18The Irish Post — independent secondary source for Farrar being Irish, born in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, and for his role as general secretary of the App Drivers and Couriers Union (with Yaseen Aslam as president) following the Aslam & Farrar v Uber ruling
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leftfootforward.org
Checked 2026-05-18Left Foot Forward / UnionDues coverage of the ADCU's formation — secondary source for the lineage of Farrar and Aslam forming United Private Hire Drivers (UPHD) as an unincorporated association in 2015, UPHD joining the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain in 2017, the 2020 disaffiliation, and the registration of the App Drivers and Couriers Union as an independent trade union in July 2020
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find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Checked 2026-05-18UK Companies House record for Worker Info Exchange Limited (registration 11633197) — primary source for the 19 October 2018 incorporation date of WIE's original UK vehicle and Farrar's directorship; corroborates the org's Companies House lineage already cited in org-worker-info-exchange
Source: entities/persons/person-james-farrar.md in movement-graph at pin 3cc1a36.