Ride-hailing app drivers can livestream your ride — and it's often legal

It'd be one thing for your Uber or Lyft driver to record your trips in their car — but it's another thing entirely when your driver posts that footage online.

If you don't think that's happening, you probably haven't heard the recent story of Jason Gargac, a St. Louis-area Uber and Lyft driver who was revealed to have taken dash cam footage of his riders and posted it on Twitch — all without their knowledge. He reportedly made  $3,500 off the stream. 

It's a pretty sketchy thing to do — sketchy enough to get Gargac deactivated from Uber and Lyft. But just because surreptitiously filming your passengers is heinous doesn't mean it's illegal.  Read more...