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In Canada, Uber and Lyft drivers can't live stream riders without 'explicit' consent

by matthew braga
July 25, 2018
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Uber and Lyft passengers in St. Louis learned last week that a local man who drove for both ride-hailing services had been covertly broadcasting hundreds of his riders’ trips to a channel on the online video streaming site Twitch.

The live streams, first reported by the St. Lous Post-Dispatch, were technically legal under Missouri law. But Canadian privacy experts say that drivers would be barred from doing the same here.

“Certainly it would run afoul of all of our privacy laws,” said privacy lawyer David Fraser, a partner with the Halifax law firm McInnes Cooper.

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