Lyft Driver’s Unfair Competition Claim Over Uber’s Data Acquisition Dismissed

(June 27, 2018, 9:59 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Reconsidering an earlier ruling allowing a former Lyft Inc. driver to pursue a claim against Uber Technologies Inc. under the California unfair competition law (UCL), a California federal magistrate judge on June 21 held that the driver did not establish entitlement to injunctive or restitutive relief under the statute based on Uber’s obtaining data on the rival firm’s drivers via spyware (Michael Gonzales v. Uber Technologies Inc., et al., No. 3:17-cv-02264, N.D. Calif., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 104332)....