DUTCH DATA PROTECTION AUTHORITY FINES UBER €290M
September 27, 2024
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On August 26, 2024, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (“Authority”) issued its largest penalty ever against Uber Technologies Inc. (“Uber”) for alleged violations of the European Union’s (“EU”) General Data Protection Regulation (“Regulation”). The €290M penalty denotes the third time that the Authority has fined Uber. The Authority found that Uber had failed to “adequately protect sensitive data it collected from European drivers” by sending driver information to Uber’s U.S. headquarters for storage. Previously, the EU had deemed U.S. data protections inadequate and therefore required companies which send EU data to the U.S. to implement additional safeguards and contractual measures to protect data. Uber had previously been in compliance with the Regulation, until 2020, when a high court in the EU struck down its policies as ineffective. The Authority determined that Uber had not, for the period between August 2021 and late 2023, implemented any replacement safeguards, despite having had continued the practice of transferring data to the U.S.
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