THE BIG APPLE GETS SUED

DoorDash sued New York City on Wednesday over a new law that compels third-party delivery companies to share customer data with restaurants.

The rule requires delivery companies to comply with requests for monthly information including names, phone numbers and email addresses.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges that the new law undermines privacy because no limits are placed on what restaurants can do with data provided to them.

When customers get food in person they don’t expect to have to disclose “the kind of sensitive personal information that the ordinance requires DoorDash to disclose,” the suit argues.

“Customers will face a serious risk of harm from their personal data being shared with every restaurant that fulfills their order on DoorDash’s platform,” it continues.