Uber has been hit with a monster positive within the EU for failing to safeguard the switch of driver information.
On Monday, the Dutch Information Safety Authority (DPA) introduced that it’s fining Uber 290 million euros, or $325 million USD, for violating the EU’s sweeping Basic Information Safety Regulation (GDPR) legal guidelines.
Uber accused of inadequate safety of private information
In response to the Dutch DPA investigation, Uber collected delicate information about its drivers — together with account particulars, taxi licenses, location information, images, fee particulars, id paperwork, and felony and medical information — and saved them on US servers with out utilizing correct “transfer tools” for transferring information outdoors of the EU. “Because of this, the protection of personal data was not sufficient,” stated the announcement.
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The positive is the tip results of a criticism filed by 170 French Uber drivers to a France-based human rights group. The criticism was then escalated to the Dutch DPA since Uber’s European headquarters is within the Netherlands.
This is not the primary time the EU has introduced the hammer down on Uber for information privateness violations. In 2018, the transportation and supply large was fined 600,000 euros for a information breach and 10 million euros in 2023 for privateness infringement of its European drivers.
Different Massive Tech firms have confronted the results of the EU’s strict legal guidelines round defending consumer information. In 2021, Amazon was slapped with a $886 million penalty for failing to adjust to the GDPR, and extra just lately, Meta was hit with a whopping $1.3 billion positive for improper switch of knowledge to the US.
The Dutch DPA stated in its announcement that Uber has “ended the violation.” Nonetheless, in an announcement to The Verge, Uber says it plans to attraction the ruling.
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