A Florida appeals court ruled that information collected by the County for ride share companies operating at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is subject to open records.
How did we get here? Taxi companies requested the ride share data from the county under open records laws. The county said the data isn’t subject to open reocords. The taxi companies sued. The lower court said aggregate number of pickups and the fees paid were not trade secrets.
2 Reasons the appellate court said the information is subject to open records and isn’t a trade secret:
- Nothing indicates the fees or total pickups provide an advantage to Yellow Cab
- Nothing indicates that Uber derives independent economic value from keeping that information secret
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