Uber Doesn’t Want to Give NYC (or Anyone) More Data
I work as a data scientist and often talk to unions and people in the public administration about data, and I agree that data which companies like Uber, Airbnb or Fedex generate can be very interesting for things like optimizing public infrastructure or salary negotiations. I can perfectly understand why companies don&#x27;t want to publish this data (as it&#x27;s a valuable asset and contains a lot of potentially sensitive insights about the company), but you have to weigh this against the benefit to the public that the data could generate.<p>I think it&#x27;s not unlikely that we will see new legislation soon which will oblige companies to make some of their data available to the public or at least public organizations so that they can be used for public good. In fact this wouldn&#x27;t be unprecedented, and nothing that would be (IMHO) very detrimental to these companies.