From CNET: Uber has a beef with government agencies that come knocking on its door for information.
The ride-hailing company released its first-ever transparency report on how it has complied with requests for user data by US law enforcement agencies and by state and local regulators such as the California Public Utilities Commission. In doing so, it joined the ranks of tech and online companies including Apple, Google, Facebook and Reddit that regularly sum up the number and nature of such requests.
Many of those inquiries are tied to routine criminal investigations or to emergencies. Between July and December of 2015, Uber received 415 total law enforcement requests such as subpoenas and search warrants, and produced "some data" in about 85 percent of those cases.
What really got under Uber's skin was the scope of snooping by regulators. The San Francisco-based company said that in that six-month period, it got 33 regulatory requests for trip data that affected a staggering number of people: 583,000 drivers and 11.6 million riders.
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