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United States of America: DoorDash opens federal complaint against NYC food delivery service data sharing bill

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DoorDash opens federal complaint against NYC food delivery service data sharing bill

The food delivery service provider DoorDash has opened a federal complaint against the City of New York, seeking an injunction against and trial on the bill allowing food service providers to request customer data from delivery platforms, subject to a customer opt-out. The Bill became law on August 29th 2021 and is set to come into force on December 27th 2021. In its complaint, DoorDash alleged that the bill violated customers' privacy rights.

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Scope

Policy Area
Data governance
Policy Instrument
Data protection regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
platform intermediary: other
Implementation Level
subnational
Government Branch
judiciary
Government Body
court

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2021-05-12
under deliberation

The New York City Council introduced Bill Int 2311-2021 to regulate the sharing of data from orders…

2021-07-29
adopted

The New York City Council has adopted and sent to the mayor Bill Int 2311-2021, which aims to regul…

2021-08-29
in grace period

New York City Bill Int 2311-2021 to regulate the sharing of data from orders placed by users of thi…

2021-09-15
under appeal

The food delivery service provider DoorDash has opened a federal complaint against the City of New …

2021-10-04
adopted

New York City has announced that it will not enforce its law requiring food delivery service provid…