Jason Gargac, a driver for Uber and Lyft in St. Louis, Missouri, has been suspended from using the Uber app for recording hundreds of St. Louis-area riders without their permission and streaming the live video online.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported 32-year-old Gargac, of Florissant, Missouri, has given about 700 rides in the area since March. The Associated Press reported. Almost all have been streamed to his channel on the live video website Twitch, where he goes by the username "JustSmurf."
Gargac said he is just trying to "capture the natural interactions between myself and the passengers."
But some riders said they felt their privacy had been violated. Of about a dozen the newspaper interviewed, all said they didn't know they were livestreamed and wouldn't have consented.
After the story's publication, Uber said it was suspending his use of the app due to "troubling behavior."
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