Lime, an electric scooter rental company serving cities in the U.S. and Europe, seeks to balance user privacy and the company's access to location-based data. In an interview with The Verge, Lime Co-Founder Brad Bao addressed a recent battle between the city of Los Angeles and fellow scooter companies about access to vehicle- and user-location information. Instead of taking a side, Bao said his company plans to find a way to appease user and company needs. "It is a combination of things and the cooperation among us," Bao said. "We should share where the traffic patterns are, and when and where most of the trips happen, but we don’t need to and the city does not need to know who is the individual that took those trips."
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