She was chatting with friends in a Lyft. Then someone texted her what they said

Anvi Ahuja noticed a "freaky" new text message from a number she didn't know right after getting back to her downtown Toronto apartment last month. The text was a transcript of the conversation she'd just had with her roommates during their eight-minute Lyft ride home from a friend's place. "I was like 'who is tapping me?'" Ahuja said. "The driver didn't inform us that we could be recorded." Within a few minutes she called the number the text came from and heard this looping, automated message: "We can't connect your call because your driver is not available right now." "It sounded like a pretty standard Lyft message, which raised a lot more questions," she said. Ahuja phoned Lyft that night looking for answers. In that initial call, she says a representative told her this was something the ride-sharing company was piloting. But then about a week later after following up with Lyft she received a written message from a member of the company's safety team which blamed the incident o ... Read full article.