But Uber, which operates Jump scooters, has fought back against the regulations, warning that such extensive data collection is tantamount to government surveillance. It can be hard to untangle Uber’s protests about privacy from its history of fighting regulation by cities. However, privacy advocates have echoed the company’s complaint, noting that while the city won’t collect the identities of the scooters’ riders it’s still possible to combine trip information with other data to identify who rode the scooter and where they went.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 22, 2019 10:06 UTC