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

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 Post-Dispatch wrote:

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