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Didi taxi driver in China suspended for live-streaming conversations with flight attendant passengers

Women were unaware that the driver was also an online host who was broadcasting their conversations to thousands of his followers

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Didi Taxi driver Kong and his unwitting passenger, flight attendant Li, who was unaware that their conversation was being live-streamed to 180,000 of Kong’s followers. Photo: The Beijing Times
Sidney Leng

A driver registered with the taxi-hailing app Didi was suspended for secretly live streaming his conversations with flight attendant passengers, The Beijing Times reports.

A flight attendant surnamed Li booked a Didi cab after work and was picked up in a Ford Edge SUV at midnight on Saturday.

The driver, surnamed Kong, asked her to sit in the front because he said there were parcels on the rear seats.

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During the drive, Kong led Li to talk about her private life and work, without telling her that he was live streaming their conversation, the report said.

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When Li found that Kong had been secretly filming her, she contacted some of her friends to argue with Kong, who didn’t respond but continued to live stream their quarrel.

Li complained to Didi after the incident.

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