{"id":881942,"date":"2024-11-28T09:14:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T03:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=881942"},"modified":"2024-11-28T09:16:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T03:46:20","slug":"ubers-new-safety-feature-allows-riders-to-record-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/11\/28\/ubers-new-safety-feature-allows-riders-to-record-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber&#8217;s new safety feature allows riders to record audio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to enhance rider and driver safety, Uber on Wednesday introduced a series of initiatives, including an audio recording feature on its app and a &#8220;Women Rider Preference&#8221; (WRP) option, particularly during late-night rides. <\/p>\n<p>The WRP feature allows female drivers to accept rides exclusively from female passengers. <\/p>\n<p>Uber said that riders can now record audio during trips if they feel &#8220;uncomfortable or concerned about their safety.&#8221; &#8220;The audio recordings will be encrypted, ensuring they are inaccessible to both drivers and passengers, and will only be accessed if submitted as part of a safety report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to enhance rider and driver safety, Uber on Wednesday introduced a series of initiatives, including an audio recording feature on its app and a &#8220;Women Rider Preference&#8221; (WRP) option, particularly during late-night rides. The WRP feature allows female drivers to accept rides exclusively from female passengers. Uber said that riders can now record audio during trips if they feel &#8220;uncomfortable or concerned about their safety.&#8221; &#8220;The audio recordings will be encrypted, ensuring they are inaccessible to both drivers and passengers, and will only be accessed if submitted as part of a safety report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}