Uber doesn’t want to, and ― for the most part ― it has a pretty solid case, one it presented at a hearing Thursday, after inviting the public to lobby on its behalf Monday with a scary email sent to riders titled “The government wants to know where you’re headed … on every ride.” Here’s the backstory:The New York City Taxi & Limo Commission, or TLC, collects a number of pieces of information on every taxi trip in the city.

Ride-hailing giant Uber says it will offer city planners and other researchers a rare peek behind the curtain and open up access to its trove of traffic data. The new service, called Uber Movement, is essentially a dashboard through which users can interact with anonymized trip data in aggregate, allowing researchers to study both broad traffic patterns and more granular neighborhood data on an hourly basis throughout the day. Uber’s motive here isn’t purely altruistic.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayerexpects to step down from the board of directors of what is left of Yahoo after completing the proposed sale of its core business to Verizon, according to a corporate filing on Monday. The company that remains will change its name to Altaba after the deal, Yahoo told the Securities and Exchange Commission. Revelations last year about a data breach affecting 1 billion Yahoo accountsled Verizon to suggest that it might abandon the purchase.

Shake Shack devotees will have to pay a little more for their burgers, but the extra change is going into workers’ pockets. A ShackBurger now costs $5.55 in New York City and other major cities like Los Angeles and Miami, an increase of 26 cents, according to Eater. The price went up 10 cents at other locations. AChick’n Shack sandwich also went up 26 cents in New York. Some menu items, such as fries and shakes, are staying the same price.

The standard of tipping restaurant servers is rooted in America’s history of slavery, and that ugly past is still hurting employees today, Shake Shack’s founder explained on a podcast this week.

News of the company’s patent for an “airborne fulfillment center utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles for item delivery” circulated widely after it was unearthed Thursday by Zoe Leavitt, a tech analyst at the firm CB Insights. Excitement about the proposal ignores the boring reality: The biggest problem for the e-commerce giant to solve before it can start commercial drone delivery in the U.S. is government regulations, not technology.

Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has eschewed his atheist beliefs and now asserts that“religion is very important.” Zuckerberg, whose Facebook profile once identified him as an atheist, revealed his change of heart on his social media network after he wished everyone on Dec. 25 a “Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah” from “Priscilla, Max, Beast and me,” referring to his wife, daughter and dog.

The co-owner of an Iowa cabinet manufacturing company apparently awash in goodwill has offered all 800 of his employee a free weeklong cruise in the Caribbean. Workers at Bertch Cabinets in Waterloo found out in mid-December that they had met the company’s quality and profit goals. About 600 are joining boss Gary Bertch on the cruise along with his wife, Becky, who founded the company with her husband in 1977.

A Tesla car appears to have successfully used its Autopilot feature to predict a car crash moments before it happened, according to dashcam footage released this week. The vehicle’s forward collision warning system is heard sounding an alert just before the car comes to a stop, a Tesla representative confirmed to CNBNC. As the car brakes, the vehicle ahead is rammed into the guardrail.

A former Versace employee is suing the luxury retail operation, accusing the fashion business of discrimination for its use of a secret “black code” to alert staff and security when a black shopper is in the store,according to the court action. The former employee claims in a 30-page lawsuit that a store in the San Francisco Bay Area where he was hired in September 2016 uses the code “D410” to communicate when a black shopper is in the store.