United States of America: New York City Council adopts bill on data sharing for food delivery services

The New York City Council has adopted and sent to the mayor Bill Int 2311-2021, which aims to regulate the sharing of data from orders placed by users of third-party food delivery services. According to the bill, food service providers can request monthly customer data (name, phone number, e-mail address, delivery address and order) from delivery service providers in a machine readable format. However, users must be informed and given a clear choice to opt out of the data sharing. The selling, renting or disclosing the information without express consent from the customer are prohibited. Customers can further request the deletion of their data and withdraw their consent.