California Cities Are Trying to Kill an Important Location Privacy Bill – EFF

I can absolutely see why transportation authorities like LADOT want this data. Heck, I can see why the public at large would want this data! There are a lot of ways that data could improve urban management.

And nowadays, we have the technology to unlock that value without violating peoples privacy. Using GAN's, an e-scooter company could turn over data that is exactly as useful to the public and the real dataset, except it's not about real users. It's about a shadow universe of people who behave just like real people, but aren't.

NVIDIA's https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ is probably the best known example of this technique, but transportation data would be a fantastic application.