<story><title>Uber says it gave U.S. agencies data on more than 12M users</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-tech-data-idUSKCN0X91R5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jakelarkin</author><text>read the report &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;transparencyreport.uber.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;transparencyreport.uber.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;the 12M users are mostly demands from regulatory authorities&lt;p&gt;- 6M is California, likely CPUC&lt;p&gt;- 3M is New York, probably the TLC there&lt;p&gt;that&amp;#x27;s how you get the data sets for analysis like
&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;toddwschneider.com&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;analyzing-1-1-billion-nyc-taxi-and-uber-trips-with-a-vengeance&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;toddwschneider.com&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;analyzing-1-1-billion-nyc-ta...&lt;/a&gt;
which appear on HN periodically and are eagerly upvoted&lt;p&gt;the regulators make this a requirement for Uber to open or continue operating in their respective regions. Uber tries to negotiate a narrow scope for info disclosure as much as possible.&lt;p&gt;(disclaimer: uber employee)</text></comment>
<story><title>Uber says it gave U.S. agencies data on more than 12M users</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-tech-data-idUSKCN0X91R5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guelo</author><text>This is kind of cheeky from Uber because there&amp;#x27;s no reason they could not report the exact regulatory agency requests to give us a better understanding of what is going on. Did they hand over the names and trip routes of 12 million people? Or just aggregate data like &amp;quot;a million people took trips to SFO&amp;quot;.</text></comment>