Uber, Lyft driver booted after newspaper reveals he was livestreaming passengers

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Enlarge / Jason Gargac, seen here in April 2018. (credit: Jason Gargac)

A St. Louis Uber and Lyft driver has been kicked off both companies’ platforms after the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Friday night that he had been livestreaming his passengers for months without their consent.

According to the newspaper, Jason Gargac, a 32-year-old man from Florissant, Missouri, had been giving hundreds of rides since March—and he has streamed nearly all of them live, under the Twitch handle “JustSmurf.” (His Twitch account has also been shuttered.)

As the Dispatch wrote:

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