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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.
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
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.
They have an uber problem on their hands. She should have a right to be lyft alone.
I know no one reads the article, or often even the summary but these are regular 'yellow' taxis. The only difference is the cabbies got more than the usual amount of client information.
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.
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 dispatch operators and permit taxi drivers to interact directly with passengers prior to pick up. There's nothing wrong with that. The Taxi driver also already knew where he was picking you up and where he was dropping you off. If they wanted to stock you then they could have done that since always. The only thing they're getting now that they didn't have before is your phone number. OH NOES.
If they really need to fix this issue, worst case they can route all call through some third party phone call anonymizing agent that associates a each passenger and taxi driver with some ID code in the system. Passenger calls the automated dispatch, types in a 4 digit driver ID code and the call is forwarded to the taxi driver. Taxi driver calls the automated dispatch and dials the temporary 4 digit ID code and the call is forwarded to the passenger. The programming for something like that is trivial. There is probably an off the shelf option available that could be set up in an afternoon to do it.
If you really need to fix it... then take a day and do that. I'm just tired of the "taxi app causes rape" meme flowing around. It's fucking bullshit.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
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.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
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.
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 customers -- humans -- harassed. It's beyond theoretical at this point, it isn't just whining for the sake of whining.
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.
Yellow cabs are using these apps now. So not only are you that unsafe environment, that "hairy guy" has your home adress and phone number.
And then enjoy your rape free environment.
There's no reason to be sarcastic about trying avoid being raped. Rape is problematic for guys too, in prison for example.