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Doing some more exploration on this. Apparently until you click “yes” it would spam you. And if you did click “yes” then your riders would get a message when th

• vsareto 6y ago
  >Tweet: Thats infuriating, misleading and probably illegal Anyone know what is potentially illegal about this?
  • ivalm 6y ago
    It would be definitely illegal if Uber drivers were employees. As of now I bet it is not illegal.
  • meatmanek 6y ago
    Well, if drivers were considered employees, then they'd be protected from their employer retaliating against them for political activity: > But two sections of the California Labor Code (sections 1101 and 1102) specify that private employers may not do any of the following: > > 1. Make, adopt or enforce any rule or policy forbidding or preventing employees from engaging or participating in politics or running for public office; > 2. Make, adopt or enforce any rule or policy that tends to control or direct the political activities or affiliations of employees;5 or > 3. Use the threat of job loss to coerce, influence or attempt to coerce or influence employees to take or refrain from taking any particular course of political activity.6 https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/labor/harassment/political-retaliation https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/labor/harassment/political-reta... Good thing we passed a law that forces Uber/Lyft to treat their drivers as employees.
  • jcranmer 6y ago
    My first thought is some form of compelled speech, but I'm not sure there's actually any statute prohibiting someone from compelling someone else to make political statements, even in an employer-employee setting. There's also a (very weak) argument to be made for defamation, as Uber's way of gathering this information might be reckless disregard of the truth. However, even if it is defamation, showing any damages is going to be extremely tricky, and even meeting the defamation bar seems like the kind of convoluted legal reasoning that tends to lose at court.