The ride-sharing provider insists it broke no rules during the three-year legal gap
Privacy authorities in the Netherlands have imposed a €290 million fine on ride-share giant Uber for sending driver data to servers in the United States -"a serious violation" of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation .to the Dutch Data Protection Authority , Uber spent years sending sensitive driver information from Europe to the US. Among the data that was transmitted were taxi licenses, location data, payment details, identity documents, and medical and criminal records.
The Dutch DPA said that the investigation that led to the fine began after complaints from a group of more than 170 French Uber drivers who alleged their data was being sent to the US without adequate protection. Because Uber's European operations are based in the Netherlands, enforcement for GDPR violations fell to the Dutch DPA.
The first came in 2018 when the authority fined Uber €600,000 for failing to report a data breach (a slugfest thatfine came earlier this year after Dutch officials determined Uber had failed to disclose data retention practices surrounding the data of EU drivers, refusing to name which countries data was sent to, and had obstructed its drivers' right to privacy.it intends to appeal the Dutch DPA's decision because it said it had no clear instructions on how to do otherwise.
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