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by jmb99 431 days ago
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.

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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.
Even before this warning, I've seen Ubers/taxis with cameras in them, along with an accompanying warning sign.