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I understand the safety implications but as recording has become more common I've become more and more uncomfortable with taking ride share. I haven't been too
by stuntkite 7y ago
I understand the safety implications but as recording has become more common I've become more and more uncomfortable with taking ride share. I haven't been too bothered by private cameras owned by the drivers. Though I don't love it and am not talkative. I really hate the advertising ipads that some drivers hang on their seats that are clearly operated by sleezy merchants. Not just because they are bright and loud and not what I'm paying for but there's totally two cameras and microphones pointed right at me with correlative info and zero accountability.
Remember back in 2014 an Uber exec showed live data of a specific journalist he didn't care for[0]? The sort of things that people talk about in a ride share... With a system like that what sort of information harvesting and manipulation could you do? Stock trading? Political profiling? Blackmail? Even if the operation is actually about "safety" and there is oversight and most of the team is interested in upholding that there is about a 0% chance that someone in the department won't use it for seriously evil shit.
[0] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johanabhuiyan/uber-is-investigating-its-top-new-york-executive-for-privacy https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johanabhuiyan/uber-is-i...