Uber stated it might enchantment the effective. (Representational)
The Hague, Netherlands:
The Dutch knowledge safety watchdog stated Monday it hit ride-hailing app Uber with a 290-million-euro ($324 million) effective over the switch of private knowledge of European drivers to US servers.
The regulator stated the transfers have been a “critical violation” of the European Union’s Basic Information Safety Regulation (GDPR) as they didn’t appropriately defend driver info.
“Uber didn’t meet the necessities of the GDPR to make sure the extent of safety to the information with regard to transfers to the US. That may be very critical,” Dutch Information Safety Authority (DPA) chairman Aleid Wolfsen stated in a press release.
The DPA stated Uber collected delicate info of European drivers, together with taxi licences, location knowledge, images, cost particulars, id paperwork, “and in some circumstances even prison and medical knowledge of drivers”.
Over a two-year interval, the DPA stated, the knowledge was transferred to Uber’s US headquarters with out utilizing switch instruments.
“Due to this, the safety of private knowledge was not ample,” the DPA stated.
Uber stated it might enchantment the effective.
“This flawed choice and extraordinary effective are fully unjustified,” an Uber spokesperson stated in a press release
“Uber’s cross-border knowledge switch course of was compliant with GDPR throughout a 3-year interval of immense uncertainty between the EU and US. We’ll enchantment and stay assured that widespread sense will prevail,” the assertion stated.
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