Foothills Park is a 1,400-acre public wilderness area located in the city of Palo Alto. For decades, the city had kept the park exclusive to Palo Alto residents under an ordinance that threatened non-residents who enter the park with jail time and a hefty fine unless they entered as guests of a Palo Alto resident. By the city’s own admission, Foothills Park was the only residents-exclusive park in California.

Renting an electric scooter should not give the government the right to trace your every move — where you start, where you end, and all stops, twists, and turns in between. But that's the situation in the City of Los Angeles where electric scooter rental companies are required to provide real-time and historic GPS tracking data to city officials.