Taxi Apps Accused of Facilitating Sexual Harassment In Brazil 49
New submitter André Costa writes The companies responsible for taxi apps Easy Taxi and 99Taxis are being accused of making it too easy for taxi drivers to harass female customers (some news reports — in Portuguese — can be found here, here and here). These apps currently disclose informations such as the client's name, cell phone and address to the driver. One customer that started being harassed through offensive text messages after a ride started an online petition demanding that the companies take effective measures to protect female customers. The petition already collected more than 27,000 signatures, and both Easy Taxi and 99Taxis already announced that they will implement features that will protect clients' privacy. At first, users will be allowed to choose if they want their phone numbers to be disclosed. Within a couple of months, both companies said they will provide VOIP calls, which will eliminate the need to exchange phone numbers.
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What I dont understand is , whats the big deal about uber?
I am not really "pro-Uber", but I am anti-corrupt-government-monopolies, and the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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"What I dont understand is , whats the big deal about uber? why is everyone giving it so much publicity? "
Vast press coverage accorded to a service that most people would need about once a year. Such is the scorn of rent-seekers whose gummint granted monopoly is threatened.
What I really want to see is for the Uber concept to be applied to health care. That's when the news will get really interesting.
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What I really want to see is for the Uber concept to be applied to health care. That's when the news will get really interesting.
What, people will make an appointment to get a physical in the back of somebody else's car? Where does that get fun?
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They quote you a price and try and charge you more
Uber does the same. I once had my uber driver get stuck in traffic, pull an illegal uturn to find a "faster" way, and end up getting stuck even worse. I had to pay an extra $30 over what I was expecting. At least with a normal cab driver you can try to argue. With Uber, they've already got your credit card on file. The only thing you could try would be a charge back, and good fucking luck winning that one.
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They quote you a price and try and charge you more
I drove cabs for 3yrs, never, ever, gave "quotes", I gave estimates but made it clear you were on the meter since half of what was on the meter wasn't mine to give away in the first place. Very rarely someone would give you a big bill to drive their elderly mum home, in those cases the meter wasn't switched on ;)
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Ban women from using taxi apps (Score:1, Troll)
I'm fucking tired of this shit. Dudes deal with seedy bullshit all the time but the ladies want to be in little isolated soap bubbles.
Just enough. Another idea might be requiring that women passengers use female taxi drivers. Will that mean paying significantly more for a taxi? I can't control the market value. Maybe it will be an empowering experience and the female drivers will get a good financial opportunity. Who knows.
But really, this whole ongoing whine has become tiresome. If you want to use a normal
Not a fix either... (Score:2)
Taxi apps are a method of communications. ALL methods of communication can be used for bad things as easy as they can be used for good things. Blaming a "taxi" application is idiotic, because the same claim could be made of Facebook, Twitter, email, cell phones, or even a goddamn piece of paper and pen if that is the only method of communication handy.
People collude and plot. This is not some brand new revelation, it goes back thousands of years in historical writing. Read Homer, Plato, Aristotle, all o
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Exactly. I'm just tired of bullshit. Once you've taken the red pill you see the corruption and patterns of behavior everywhere.
It isn't even always a conspiracy. It moves like a fad or a meme... it is the wave that goes around a stadium. A mindless and generally meaningless reaction that forms a pattern of behavior.
This whole "uber causes rape" meme has been flowing around the world. And YES I know this article is not about Uber... but it is a result of that meme.
The point of the apps is to bypass the dispa
Basic logic fail (Score:2)
Sending an image is communicating. Sending a specific type of image is using that method of communication. Without failed logic can you prove my statement wrong regarding communication? Call me a skeptic, but you already failed at basic logic so I believe the answer is "NO".
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I was aware... but it is all linked to the general backlash against changes to the taxi system which is linked to Uber etc.
This isn't happening in a vacuum. Should a taxi driver see your phone number? The taxi dispatch operator has your phone number.
How is it better for that to happen? The dispatch operator also knows where you were picked up and where you were dropped off.
No one minds the dispatch operator having that information but the taxi driver? No... that's a violation of my privacy. Give me a fuckin
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According to the summary the problem is already being solved. I'm not quite sure what the point of this article is.
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Dudes deal with seedy bullshit all the time
Exactly, and that's why these ladies did everyone a favor by protesting so it got fixed. Your red-pill addled mind got so hung up on the word "female" that you missed the rest of the sentence: "making it too easy for taxi drivers to harass [...] customers". Not only have there been leaks, there have been actual cases of cu
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The taxi company always knows these things.
And it only knows your name because you TELL it your name.
If it asks my name and I say "bruce wayne" then the taxi company thinks my name is bruce wayne. Same thing with everything else.
It isn't a big deal because the taxi companies have been getting this information since ALWAYS. The only difference is that they're trying to remove the dispatchers which means the driver gets it instead of the dispatcher. Why is that problem?
As to taxi drivers harassing customers..
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1. Pee in a cup. 2. Find an address in a street directory. 3. Calculate a split fare. 4. Memorise a handful of regulations, must display license, what to do if customer refuses to pay, etc.
Shit job, shit pay, but if driving a cab doesn't teach you how to handle random arseholes, nothing will.
despite all signs pointing the other way
If you read the statistical "signs" they all say the cab driver is in far more peril than the passenger.
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This isn't about big girl panties or sucking it. It's about a transaction and the details of which being used for nonprofessional uses.
It's like you getting a phone and then all the sudden getting obscene and harassing phone calls from the phone company itself and it's employees stalking you. Anyone should enjoy the right to not be pestered by indecent calls or texts just because they did business with someone.
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lol.. What an idiot. Whether a woman looks like a whore or not does not give anyone the right to violate her just as it doesn't give anyone the right to kick your ass- even though we might think you deserve it. When she says bugger off creep, you need to move on.
Rape statistics have little to do with it. For one, a lot of the rapes were unreported [musc.edu], for two, there was a level of social justice the simply is not tolerated today so rapists don't really have to worry about being hunted down a killed by her kin,
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An alternate and more appropriate way to look at it is that before Hanoi Fonda and her ilk started to burn their bras, women were made of stronger stuff and were capable of brushing off annoyances that make current women reach for the trigger warnings. Now with the "male gaze" and other such feminitwaddle even the act of looking at a girl is considered "rape". No wonder there's "more occurances" now.
Back in the day women were more moral, dressed appropriately and used common sense to stay out of dangerous s
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I agree that feminist have went beyond equality into some I'm special silly reality but this simply is not part of it.
Someone saying nice legs, whistling, and crap is something that should be blown off. However, that object of the cat call should have the ability to retreat if they are not comfortable. Because these apps shared personal information with specific business transactions, that personal information should not be used to remove portions of that retreat. A cab driver giving a wolf whistle is one t
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Grandpa! What are you doing posting on Slashdot?
Sexual harassment is now a crime in Brazil? (Score:2)
Uber is responsible to global warming and the heartbreak of psoriasis in 3...2...1.