She says city cannot require delivery apps to share customer names and addresses.
U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres ruled this week that a New York City law requiring food delivery companies to share customer information with restaurants was unconstitutional, violating the companies’ First Amendment commercial speech rights.
New York City passed the law in 2021, requiring companies like Grubhub and Doordash to share customer information, such as names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses, with the restaurants from which they deliver. The law received support from restaurant trade groups, including the New York City Hospitality Alliance, which said the law would allow small businesses to build a customer marketing base alongside the delivery service titans.
However, DoorDash, Grubhub, and Uber Eats jointly sued the city, saying that the law violated customer privacy rights and data security. Judge Torres agreed, requiring New York City to cease enforcing the law while the lawsuit proceeds.
Judge Torres suggested that the city could have found less intrusive ways to assist restaurants, such as offering customers the option to share their information with the restaurants.
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- For district judges as they hear and rule on cases that challenge the constitutionality of laws and ordinances.
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Sources: Reuters, NY Post
