If it's not for public safety or something of that nature, I don't see why the government should really care. Aside from public safety, there's a whole lot of

If it's not for public safety or something of that nature, I don't see why the government should really care. Aside from public safety, there's a whole lot of reasons -- from measuring how efficient these services really are (in a rapidly changing transportation landscape) to ensuring truly open and fair competition among potential providers -- for which regulators (and the public generally) might have an interest in this data.