It has been a week of secret recordings and invasion of Privacy first by Trump’s former lawyer Mr. Cohen and now by an Uber driver, Jason Gargac from Missouri.
Herald has gathered that a freelance driver who worked for both Uber and Lyft, the two biggest taxi agencies in the United States City of Missouri has been accused of secretly recording his clients in his taxi and streaming the pictures live on the internet without the knowledge and approval of the victims.
The driver named Jason Gargac, aged 32, from St. Louis has posted about 700 live rides so far this year alone and was first discovered and outed by a local St. Louis Newspaper, the Dispatch.
Uber and Lyft both suspended the 32 year old from their services while revoking his operating license.
The driver had broadcast every visible and audible detail of hundreds of trips in his Chevrolet pickup including passengers’ faces, conversations and drop-off locations; these were streamed on the website Twitch.
One of the victims who preferred to remain anonymous said….
“I feel violated. I’m embarrassed. We got in an Uber at 2 a.m. to be safe, and then I find out that because of that, everything I said in that car is online and people are watching me. It makes me sick.”
The Uber driver claimed he had no hidden agenda regarding the recordings, stating that he was just capturing natural reactions between himself and his passengers. The videos however point to a much darker rationale.
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In one his of the uploaded videos, the Uber driver could be heard saying, as he was about to pick up two female clients.
“This better be [expletive] content, I swear to God. This better be [expletive] content, that’s all I’m saying. I mean, the blond girl looks kind of cute, if they’re together. The blonde is cute. The one who ordered is not.”
The two women had jumped into the car, very unaware that their trip was going to be streamed live online.
As the video goes on, he is seen trying to start a conversation with one of the women as she opens up about her fear of trusting Uber drivers with her story.
“I really have this issue of telling Uber drivers my whole life story,”
The rest of the trip continues with the Uber driver spewing disgusting jokes throughout the ride as tried to get the women to open up to him.
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