{"id":186,"date":"2015-05-14T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/05\/14\/new-front-in-ride-share-regulation-regulating-the-app\/"},"modified":"2015-05-14T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T18:53:00","slug":"new-front-in-ride-share-regulation-regulating-the-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/new-front-in-ride-share-regulation-regulating-the-app\/","title":{"rendered":"New Front in Ride Share Regulation: Regulating the APP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to New York City, home of regulating app. NYC Taxing and Limousine Commission is proposing new rules to require:<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; smartphone app operators \u201cmust apply for approval of a modification\u201d for certain changes to any app used to arrange vehicle rides for hire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ride Share companies say: the proposal &#8220;effectively grant the commission veto power over software updates&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The city says: don&#8217;t worry, we&#8217;re just&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0\u201ccodify[ing] basic safety and consumer protection requirements that most apps have already adopted, and, to a large extent, it is their best practices that are the backbone of the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/14\/nyregion\/uber-and-internet-giants-assail-new-york-citys-plan-to-bolster-rules-for-car-hire-apps.html?_r=0\">NYTimes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to New York City, home of regulating app. NYC Taxing and Limousine Commission is proposing new rules to require:<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; smartphone app operators \u201cmust apply for approval of a modification\u201d for certain changes to any app used to arrange vehicle rides for hire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ride Share companies say: the proposal &#8220;effectively grant the commission veto power over software updates&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The city says: don&#8217;t worry, we&#8217;re just&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0\u201ccodify[ing] basic safety and consumer protection requir&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-trend","category-legislative-trend","category-ride-share","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}