It turned out that drivers who combined Uber and Lyft were distributing passengers on the Internet without permission, but legally 'no problem'

Clearly that a man who was serving as a driver of Uber and Lyft who can get income by putting passengers on private cars shoots the inside of the car with a camera all the time and streamed passengers on the Internet It is getting. It is a very unpleasant event for passengers, but this law is not illegal under local law.

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The 32-year-old Jason Gargac, who had been registering as a driver of Uber and Lyft at St. Louis, Missouri, delivered the state of the user without informing passengers at all. We set up a camera so that everything including passengers is reflected in the car of the pickup truck "Chevrolet Silverado" owned by himself, and delivered the situation on the live streaming delivery platform "Twitch" in real time.

A state of live distribution is like this. The faces of the two women sitting in the rear seats are blacked out by the news media "The St. Louis Post-Dispatch" that reported this, but when they were actually delivered, all the faces were in a state that they could see their faces That's right.

At the time of delivery, not only video but also audio was all being flowed in real time. It was supposed that there was no knowing except Mr. Gargac that the car interior that I thought was a closed space was actually a space delivered all over the world via the Internet.

When you are running with customers, you can see in the comment section of the live broadcasting that "The blonde child is seven out of ten, the one with brown hair is five", "It is not a girls' sitting" "It is a bad child The comment such as "It was said that it was sent.

Part of the video that Mr. Gargac was distributing is like this.

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Mr. Gargac said that he registered passengers over 700 times since March 2018 when he registered for service. Twitch delivered with the ID "JustSmurf", but the account has been closed due to this one case.

Mr. Gargac's proud of its popularity as it is, it seems that about 4000 followers were attached.

A woman who actually got Mr. Gargac's car and found to have been delivered said "I felt a violation of privacy and I was humiliated" "I got on Uber at 2 am because it was safe" However, I learned that all the things I talked about in the car were released on-line, and I am very uncomfortable. "

Passengers who learned of this incident said that complaints were received by Uber and Lyft. Uber provided credits of 5 dollars (about 600 yen) to passengers who were "damaged" to the user account, initially "correspondence was made to prevent Mr. Gargac from being arranged in the future" was taken It was. However, it has been told that Uber and Lyft have deleted Mr. Gargac's registration as a driver.

Mr. Gargac said that he thinks "not doing anything particularly bad" about this matter. For Mr. Gargac, this distribution is part of "virtual human observation that brings money", and in response to the media's interview, "Take the natural interaction between you and the passengers and see what Lyft and Uber usage is like It is for telling. "

Mr. Gargac's action is not illegal, there is also a basis for provision of state law in Missouri state. In Missouri state, when photographing their behaviors with a camera, even if they do not take consent of that person unless they are not nude or some nude, it is illegal and There is a regulation that is not done.

Mr. Gargac explains why he started delivering "It is not money". Mr. Gauguard is in an unemployed state not doing any job other than Uber and Lyft, but his wife has taken care of his immediate life. Mr. Gargac said that it is "security aspect" about the main reason for starting distribution. While running as a driver of Uber and Lyft, if some incident such as accident or robbery occurred on his / her own, and it was not discovered for several weeks as it was, Mr. Gargac, who was afraid to fall into itself, It says that it is the reason why we installed it started distribution.

Mr. Gargac, who was interviewed by The St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 90 minutes, finally inquired of reporters "I can ask you not to know the full name of real name" in the article. Mr. Gargac told reporters who answered "It is a matter of time to know his real name", Mr. Gargac said, "I want you to make it as far as possible for the first name, because it is a matter of privacy, because the internet is a crazy place." It is said that.