Two ride-sharing drivers were deactivated by China's car-hailing service Dida Chuxing, after both men were reportedly live streaming female passengers without consent and verbally harassing them.

The drivers, both anchors with China's live streaming service Huya Broadcasting, were caught on Tuesday live streaming their hitch service trips to attract viewers for financial gains, Beijing Youth Daily reports.

In the streams, one of the anchors "qinghanwofeiguo" was recorded boosting engagement by inviting his viewers to look over female passengers' profile photos and choose which passengers to pick up.

After each passenger boarded his car, viewer number immediately jumped from 1,000 to more than 20,000. The driver would then start flirting with his passengers and asking all sorts of personal questions, prompting the women to reveal private information including their age and profession.

Another live stream host with alias "yingyuhuanyin18hao" went even further by wooing his passengers and asking for their contact information. If he got turned down, the anchor would use obscene language to insult the women.

During the interaction, the drivers didn't ask for any of his passengers' permission for live streaming. None of the women seemed to realize that their ride sharing experience was publicized online, nor did they know that many viewers commented with crude, disrespectful language, some even suggesting rape.

After the incidents were reported to Dida Chuxing and Huya Broadcasting, both companies responded by launching prompt investigations into the two users.

On Wednesday, Huyan Broadcasting in a public announcement suspended both anchors' channels. The live streaming platform also decided to ban any form of live streaming during driving, tightening its regulations to better protect user privacy.

Dida Chuxing, the fast-growing competitor of China's largest ride sharing platform Didi, also announced on Wednesday to deactivate both drivers for infringing customer privacy.

This is not the first time ride-sharing drivers were caught live streaming passengers and reported for privacy infringement. 

Back in August 2016, a man surnamed Kong was suspended by live stream platform Panda TV after he streamed picking up young female cabin assistants at Beijing's Capital International Airport, Shanghai Morning Post reported. In July, an Uber driver in the US was reportedly live streaming over 700 passengers on video streaming platform Twitch without gaining passengers' consent, US local paper St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.