United States of America: New York City bill on data sharing for food delivery services enters into force with grace period

New York City Bill Int 2311-2021 to regulate the sharing of data from orders placed by users of third-party food delivery services has become law automatically after the bill was left unsigned by the mayor at the lapse of a 30-day signing deadline. 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. The bill will enter into force on December 27th 2021.