The issue focused on how three companies have benefited from the sharing economy by charging users for products they use while on the go — most notably Uber and Airbnb.


But lawyers for the city also asked the company to stop carrying out a software program that puts millions of smartphones in hundreds of thousands of homes across the city into special storage that can be used by Lyft or other apps that use it. Users access the servers from their iPhones or iPads, where they access information such as local listings or recent transactions, according