The next big political fight over data privacy may center on an unlikely piece of technology: The scooters flying around streets and scattered on sidewalks in cities across the country
OAKLAND — The next big political fight over data privacy may center on an unlikely piece of technology: The scooters currently flying around streets and scattered on sidewalks in cities across the country.
In a letter to Los Angeles Department of Transportation manager Seleta Reynolds, the company warned of “an unprecedented level of surveillance, oversight, and control that LADOT would wield over private companies and individual citizens.” “I think it’s the big privacy issue of the next few years,” said Joseph Jerome, policy counsel for the Center for Democracy and Technology’s data and privacy project. “This sort of combination of private data in public hands is going to be a bigger and bigger issue, and when it’s geolocation there are some particular questions.”
“We were looking to respond quickly to a new mobility that kind of landed on our streets without permission," he said. Porras said city officials rigorously examined privacy implications and ultimately decided to classify the location information as confidential, meaning it’s not subject to public records requests. He noted that the information LA is collecting does not include personal identifiers.Los Angeles is widely seen as ahead of the curve on data practices. A representative for Mayor Eric Garcetti stressed that record and said the city strives to keep residents informed “as new technologies emerge.
The debate is unfurling as the state wrestles over the scope of the California Consumer Privacy Act, which which emerged last year amid growing concerns about Big Tech’s intrusiveness. She was among the NACTO officials last year touting a project called Shared Streets that lets private companies and public agencies share transit data. A NACTO representative declined to speak on the record, but the Shared Streets website has a section devoted to assuring that “incredibly sensitive” data would be anonymized.
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