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June 9, 2020 02:10 am

ACLU Sues LA Over Controversial Scooter Tracking System

The American Civil Liberties Union sued Los Angeles Monday over the city's requirement that electric scooter rental companies provide anonymized real-time location data. The Verge reports: The lawsuit centers on the Los Angeles Department of Transportation's use of a digital tool called the Mobility Data Specification program (MDS), which the agency created as a way to track and regulate electric scooters operating on its streets. MDS provides the city with data on where each bike and scooter trip starts, the route each vehicle takes, and where each trip ends. LADOT has said the data won't be shared with police without a warrant, won't contain personal identifiers, and won't be subject to public records requests. But the ACLU says the data tool is unconstitutional. "Renting an electric scooter should not give the government the right to trace your every move -- where you start, where you end, and all stops, twists, and turns in between," the ACLU said in a statement. The group's California chapter is joined on the suit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the law firm Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP. The ACLU is [...] alleging that MDS violates the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution preventing unlawful search and seizure. "The government's appropriate impulse to regulate city streets and ensure affordable, accessible transportation for all should not mean that individual vehicle riders' every move is tracked and stored without their knowledge," said Mohammad Tajsar, senior staff attorney at ACLU SoCal. "There are better ways to keep ride-share companies in check than to violate the constitutional rights of ordinary Angelenos who ride their vehicles."

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