> Few foreign governments will permit an American company to see where their citizens are, where they're going and with whom they are meeting for how long. Of

> Few foreign governments will permit an American company to see where their citizens are, where they're going and with whom they are meeting for how long. Of course they will. See Google, Facebook and hundreds of others. The EU –to use an obvious example– also doesn't discriminate non-EU companies but only requires them to implement the same safeguards expected from EU companies. But I just don't see how "data" even plays any major role in the future of Uber. It's ultimately a commodity dominated by the costs of a driver's time. Cost/risk of switching is low. Barriers to entry are almost nonexistent. When Uber eventually goes Under, net effect will have been the transfer of a few million passengers from a to b, and a few billion dollars from whoever owns stock when the ride ends to the drivers (and possibly earlier investors who had the good sense to see it as the ponzi scheme it is).