It's easy to accidentally hit the microphone button that appears for any text field in almost all smartphone apps. The phone then transcribes any speech it hears and enters it into the field. I've done this.
It's not hard to imagine a scenario where the driver had the message passenger view open in the Lyft app and accidentally recorded the conversation this way. This probably happens a lot but this time the driver also accidentally sent it rather than deleting it.
This seems much more likely than a company recording someone without their consent but also texting them the transcription.
I was in an uber (in Canada) yesterday, and the app had a tiny message in the top right corner that “this ride is being recorded” (or something to that effect), which was only displayed after the driver picked me up. When tapped, it showed a screen that the ride was being recorded for passenger and driver safety, and that recordings were only available to uber support of the driver chose to send them.
So clearly it’s not out of the question for something like this to happen.
In the past year, a number of times when I've arranged for a Lyft ride (Virginia, US), a notice has popped up that the driver has a camera and will be recording the ride for passenger and driver safety. Most of those rides have had cameras; but, not all of them. It's always prompted me to ask the driver about it.Some use them all the time, some said they only used them at night or on weekends.
>It's easy to accidentally hit the microphone button that appears for any text field in almost all smartphone apps.
This. I do it pretty often, most apps have their own icon for it, plus the keyboard itself also has an icon for it. I actually use it a lot of times to send texts intentionally, but often have to start over because it picks up background speech from nearby people or the tv and messes up what you're trying to input.
If the conversation was recorded with the microphone on the driver's phone, and the Lyft has different apps for drivers and passengers, mightn't the microphone consent only appear to the driver, and not to the passenger?
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Viator | Director, Manager and Engineer all levels | Full time | Remote & Hybrid On-site | Poland, Portugal, UK
Viator connects suppliers to travelers, creating the world's largest platform for travel experiences.
We are growing fast and have many positions to fill in Poland, Portugal and the UK. We are looking for managers and engineers at all levels for full-stack, backend, app, SRE and data teams. Roles can be remote or in the office. For the remote roles you still need to be based somewhere in Poland, Portugal or the UK. We can't offer remote working from other countries right now.
Viator | Software Engineer and Manager all levels | Full time | Remote & Hybrid On-site | Poland, Portugal, UK
Viator connects suppliers to travelers, creating the world's largest platform for travel experiences.
We are growing fast and have many positions to fill in Poland, Portugal and the UK. We are looking for managers and engineers at all levels for full-stack, backend, SRE and data teams. Roles can be remote or in the office. For the remote roles you still need to be based somewhere in Poland, Portugal or the UK. We can't offer remote working from other countries right now.
Viator | Software Engineer and Manager all levels | Full time | Remote & Hybrid On-site | Poland, Portugal, UK
Viator connects suppliers to travelers, creating the world's largest platform for travel experiences.
We are growing fast and have many positions to fill in Poland, Portugal and the UK. We are looking for managers and engineers at all levels for full-stack, backend, SRE and data teams. Roles can be remote or in the office. For the remote roles you still need to be based somewhere in Poland, Portugal or the UK. We can't offer remote working from other countries right now.
Viator | Software Engineer and Manager all levels | Full time | Remote & Hybrid On-site | Poland, Portugal, UK
Viator connects suppliers to travelers, creating the world's largest platform for travel experiences.
We are growing fast and have many positions to fill in Poland, Portugal and the UK. We are looking for managers and engineers at all levels (including interns) for full-stack, backend, SRE and data teams. Roles can be remote or in the office. For the remote roles you still need to be based somewhere in Poland, Portugal or the UK. We can't offer remote working from other countries right now.
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Viator connects suppliers to travelers, creating the world's largest platform for travel experiences.
We are growing fast and have many positions to fill in Portugal and the UK. We are looking for engineers at all levels for full-stack, backend and data teams. Roles in Portugal require you to be in the office in Lisbon part time. UK roles can be part time in an office in London or Oxford or fully remote. For the remote roles you still need to be based somewhere in the UK.
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