I think the most interesting, or scary, part of all of this is the justification for this warrantless search and seizure: to stop Uber from operating in the cit

I think the most interesting, or scary, part of all of this is the justification for this warrantless search and seizure: to stop Uber from operating in the city. Usually the government has to invoke public safety to try to justify removing individual rights. Now they can just invoke the taxi lobby I guess.