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Taxi Apps Accused of Facilitating Sexual Harassment In Brazil
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.
Here we go...
So says the Uber shill.
i havent taken UBER before, but haven taken taxis before, i honestly cant see how it can be worse. They quote you a price and try and charge you more, they never speak english, its a giant hassle
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
Client sexually abuse you!
What I dont understand is , whats the big deal about uber? why is everyone giving it so much publicity? AFAIK its just another fucked up service .. what the hell..
The driver calls a company number, which connects him to the customer he needs to reach. The driver never needs to know the customer phone number. To prevent harassment, the call transfer no longer works a few hours after the trip.
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.
Thats what the americans said to the Taliban . They werent really pro-islamic
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.
They have an uber problem on their hands. She should have a right to be lyft alone.
Fool.
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 yellow cab, then use one of those. If you want to use the the rape mobiles which is apparently character assassination being tried against Uber etc... then you know what you were getting in for.
Seriously done with it. No woman HAS to use an Uber cab. They can use a yellow cab or whatever was there before Uber. Use that, climb into the back of some grimy cab that smells like stale cigarette smoke driven in all likelihood by some hairy guy that is OF COURSE never going to rape you or make inappropriate comments. He isn't working for Uber, so he's safe.
And then enjoy your rape free environment. But if you use the Uber cab... I don't want to hear about it. I'm tapped out of care.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
Just yesterday /. was telling me how awesome taxi drivers are vetted against uber drivers despite all signs pointing the other way:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7127477&cid=49296375
Color me surprised.
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 of the diaries from the dark ages. More recently, watch just about any reality TV show which is always full of people plotting and scheming. Someone is always a victim, and someone always benefits. Losing your life savings on paper may be deemed "not as bad" as an assault, but the long reaching impact is worse in my opinion.
We can't teach history, and we can't talk about reality. We half to talk about invented dramas which have no bearing on reality except to maintain the status quo.
It's really too bad that people refuse to look at why people get paid big bucks to argue and publish these positions. Remember, Gamergate was an issue about sexism, not about corrupt journalists colluding to influence public opinion. (hint: One of those things is reality, the other is an invented scenario)
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Do you still get your 50 cent astroturf fee when you post AC?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
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 ;)
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
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.
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, 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, three, in the 50s and 60s we institutionalize mentally ill people a lot earlier and a lot longer on a lot less grounds, and finally, and finally, we changed the laws on what was rape in the 60's including the reporting for record keeping to include more acts and again later in the 70s and 80s to include yet more activities.
If you look at the statistics which only include what was reported, you will see a jump in all violent, property, rape, robbery, assault, burglary and, motor vehicle theft crimes too. It seems the murder and larceny rates stayed about the same. Is that all because of how a woman started dressing or could there be other issues involved?
but hey, this has nothing to do with rapes as near as I can tell. None of the articles listed mention it. It is literally as I said, professional disclosure of personal information being used for non professional uses and behavior that would get most people fired from their jobs.
Yeah this type of things are prevailing in all types of areas...............
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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 situations. Women now days want the right to make dumb choices and have someone else pay the price (along with the price of their contraceptives, isn't that right miss fluke?).
That's what feminism has made of woman; stupider than her predecessors and far whinier. We won't even talk about what it's done to the men! Those poor fools are queing up to have their balls cut off -god help us all!
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 thing, borderline stalking by repeatedly communicating the same but through other avenues only possible because of that business transaction is completely another.
Look at it this way, if your mom, sister, girlfriend, you neighbor or even yourself dressed as prudish as you think women should, acted like you think they should, and her bank keeps calling her to say he wishes he was her undergarment or messages her to talk about his sexual quirks and keeps asking to meet up- would you think it was appropriate? I would hope not and I would hope you would expect it to stop. Now if the same was walking down the street and people said the same, it would be different if it ended when they walked away.
Absolutely yes, they should; along with anti-semetic and racist devs.
and the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Perhaps this is stating what should be obvious, but the enemy of my enemy can be my tool. No more and no less. The enemy of my enemy is certainly not ipso facto my friend, or indeed anything other than my enemy's enemy.
Uber is responsible to global warming and the heartbreak of psoriasis in 3...2...1.
"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.
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?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Grandpa! What are you doing posting on Slashdot?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
> Someone saying nice legs, whistling, and crap is something that should be blown off.
Like the 13 year old I met last night, *incensed* that the symbol for Volvo has an arrow on it. "That's Sexist!! Grrrr, argghhh!!!"
I very, very carefully did not mention that I had *just* bought her a box of tampons, which might have something to do with her reaction, and I *definitely* did not dare mention that to her mother.
Come on now, Taxis are slightly better than the Taliban! You almost never get stabbed or beheaded by smelly and insane no-speak-english muslim Taxi drivers.
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".
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.