Uber fined €290 million by Dutch authorities for transferring European driver data to the US

Uber has to pay the Dutch data protection agency €290 million for transferring European taxi drivers’ data to servers in the United States.

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00:00Uber has been fined 290 million euros by the Data Protection Authority in the Netherlands,

00:07where the body's European headquarters are located.

00:12The ride-hailing company is accused of breaching EU data rules by transferring personal details

00:17of European drivers to the US.

00:21Dutch DPA says the company lacked adequate protection between 2020 and 2022.

00:31In a statement, Uber replied that the decision was flawed and the extraordinary fine was

00:36completely unjustified.

00:38The company is likely to appeal the ruling.

00:44The company, as well as the not-for-profit association Computer and Communications Industry,

00:50argue that the fine is targeting a period of significant legal uncertainty.

00:56In 2020, an EU court invalidated the privacy shield that allowed for data transfers between

01:02the EU and the US.

01:05Until the end of 2023, there was no clear set of rules until the EU-US data privacy

01:11framework came into force.

01:14Uber has been using those rules since then, but the Dutch authority argues it cannot ignore

01:19the lack of sufficient protection during the period investigated after a group of

01:23drivers in France filed a complaint.