{"id":632265,"date":"2024-08-26T13:16:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T10:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/netherlands-hits-uber-with-e290m-fine-for-transfer-of-sensitive-driver-data-to-us\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T13:16:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T10:16:32","slug":"netherlands-hits-uber-with-e290m-fine-for-transfer-of-sensitive-driver-data-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/netherlands-hits-uber-with-e290m-fine-for-transfer-of-sensitive-driver-data-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"#Netherlands hits Uber with \u20ac290M fine for transfer of \u2018sensitive\u2019 driver data to US"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n The Dutch data protection authority (DPA) has hit Uber with a \u20ac290mn fine for transferring personal European driver data to the US.<\/p>\n

According to the DPA, the transfers constituted a \u201cserious violation\u201d of the EU\u2019s GDPR, as they failed to provide the necessary safeguards for data storage outside the block.<\/p>\n

Following an investigation, the DPA found that, between August 2021 and November 2023, Uber was transferring and storing sensitive data to US servers without the additional protection tools required by the GDPR.<\/p>\n

The data included taxi licences, account and payment details, IDs, photos, and even criminal or medical records.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn Europe, the GDPR protects people\u2019s fundamental rights by requiring companies and governments to handle personal data with care,\u201d said DPA chairman Aleid Wolfsen.<\/p>\n

However, Uber failed to ensure this level of protection, he added.<\/p>\n

The investigation was prompted by a complaint from over 170 French drivers to local human rights organisation Ligue des droits de l\u2019Homme (LDH). LDH then filed a complaint to France\u2019s data protection watchdog CNIL.<\/p>\n

According to the GDPR, companies processing data across the EU must answer to a single privacy authority, located in the country where a business has its European headquarters. As Uber\u2019s base is in the Netherlands, the DPA led the probe.<\/p>\n

The DPA said that Uber has now stopped the practice. It\u2019s also going to appeal the decision.<\/p>\n

This is the third fine the Dutch watchdog imposes on Uber. In 2018, the DPA hit the company with \u20ac600,000<\/a> for failing to notify the agency on time over a data breach in 2016. And as of January this year, Uber is also facing a \u20ac10mn fine<\/a> (again) for violating privacy rules, which it has appealed.\n <\/div>\n

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The Dutch data protection authority (DPA) has hit Uber with a \u20ac290mn fine for transferring personal European driver data to the US. According to the DPA, the transfers constituted a \u201cserious violation\u201d of the EU\u2019s GDPR, as they failed to provide the necessary safeguards for data storage outside the block. Following an investigation, the DPA…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":632266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image\/tnw-blurple?filter_last=1&fit=1280%2C640&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2024%2F08%2FUntitled-design-22.jpg&signature=39983c79e858a4e590002bd6abf0a770","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}