Boston has agreed to keep secret detailed data from every Uber ride in the city, according to a contract between the city and the company.
The agreement, obtained by the Herald through a public records request, appears to comply with a specific exemption in Massachusetts state law, which says data that is voluntarily provided to governments does not fall under public records law.
"The data constitutes Uber's trade secrets or commercial or financial information voluntarily provided to the city for use in developing governmental policy and upon a promise of confidentiality," said Bonnie McGilpin, a spokeswoman for Mayor Martin J. Walsh. She said the city is in the process of analyzing the data.
That means details of the "tens of thousands of Uber rides on the streets of Boston every day," according to the report, will not be made public. The agreement also requires the city to inform Uber when the data is requested by a third party.
Taylor Bennett, a spokesman for Uber, said the data contains information that could be useful to Uber's competitors.
"It's a foundation of the business and how we operate and sharing it will expose competitive disadvantages," Bennett said. "That's the formula we use to improve, and when we reveal that, that's data that competition can use."
Uber announced several weeks ago that it would be sharing trip data. The city said it would be useful for making policy decisions on transportation, development and infrastructure.
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