05:08 AM EDT, 09/26/2024 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with a response from New York City legal department in the fifth paragraph.)

A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that a New York City law requiring food delivery services such as Uber (UBER) Eats, DoorDash ( DASH ) and Grubhub to share customer names and contact details with restaurants is unconstitutional, media outlets reported.

The judge ruled that the 2021 law meant to help restaurants recover from the COVID-19 pandemic violated the First Amendment by improperly regulating commercial speech, Reuters reported.

The companies argued that the law violated customers' privacy rights.

"The court has rightly recognized how this law would have violated bedrock First Amendment rights of how we protect New Yorkers' data, and we're pleased that we can now put this matter behind us," a DoorDash ( DASH ) spokesperson said in an emailed statement to MT Newswires.

A spokesperson for New York City's legal department said: "We are carefully reviewing the court's ruling."

Uber ( UBER ) did not immediately reply to MT Newswires' request for comment.

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