Yellow cabs work when you hail it at point A and get dropped off at point B. Addresses are recorded but not the identity. Uber cabs work when you request it at

Yellow cabs work when you hail it at point A and get dropped off at point B. Addresses are recorded but not the identity. Uber cabs work when you request it at point A and get dropped off at point B. Addresses are recorded and the identity. Yellow cabs share its data. All journeys along with their start, end coordinates. No identity issues as their platform could not record it. Say if Uber cabs could share its data. All journeys along with their start, end coordinates. No need to share identity of the person associated with that journey. Using Yellow cabs data set, if I have an address of my friend's place then I can figure out his journeys pattern when I see a frequency of his apartment address (minus the home number) either by data crunching around his address or the nearest corner intersection where he can potentially hail a cab. I really don't see what's a huge deal here, unless Uber really does not want to expose its $ amount for a variety of reasons that I don't want to get into. Uber can strip off identity data, they can even strip off building numbers by normalizing pinpointed building numbers to nearest intersections. Sure every place can not have a nearest intersection. In that case, provide macro geo-information for the neighborhood. Trust me, every address has a nearby intersection in the city of New York. Edit 1: spellings