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by caseysoftware 2734 days ago
While fingerprinting was the public claim, the City also demanded ride level trip data. That one didn't get the same coverage. Of course, it came out later the City wants to regulate all online transactions including Craiglist, Airbnb, and even Tinder. I still don't understand that last one.

I wrote about this in great detail quite a while ago and quoted Mayor Adler: https://medium.com/@CaseySoftware/mayor-steve-adler-is-scamm...