Delivery drivers trade data for rest stop services

The Argentinian startup Nippy offers delivery drivers access to rest stops including free coffee, phone charging stations, and toilets in return for downloading its app and allowing it to sell the data the app collects to partners in insurance, financial services, and telecommunications. The result is to give companies like Mastercard and Movistar insight into gig workers' income in the areas where Nippy operates in Argentina, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. The services Nippy's rest stops provide, which in some cases include handling failed delivery items, are generally otherwise inaccessible to drivers.

https://restofworld.org/2024/gig-worker-rest-stop-nippy/ 

Publication: Rest of World

Writer: Daniela Dib