A standard fine on "Uber" to transfer data to the United States

Uber is subject to a record fine of 290 million euros ($ 324 million) by the Dutch Privacy Control Authority for failure to meet the European protection standards when large amounts of sensitive data were transferred to the United States. The Dutch data protection authority believed that Uber collected information about managers from Europe, such as taxi industry and Terreindata and in some cases criminals and medical data, and kept it on servers in the United States. A spokesperson for the authority via e -mail indicated that the fine was the highest fine ever imposed by the Dutch supervisory authority against any company. It is also the largest fine of ‘Uber’ in the world. Insufficient protection said the supervisory body said on Monday that the transport service business sent sensitive data to its United States headquarters for more than two years without using data transfer instruments aimed at protecting privacy, which means the data is ‘insufficiently protected’. The commission added that Uber suspended the offense last year. Uber spokesman Casper Nixon said in response to e -mail questions that the fine was ‘absolutely unjustified’. Nixon continued that Uber’s data transfer was compatible with European laws and that the company would appeal the decision. Alaid Wolfsen, head of the Dutch Databear Coptage Authority, said in a statement that Uber does not meet the requirements of European laws “to ensure the level of data protection in terms of transfers to the United States. It is very dangerous.” The third punishment of its kind began the Dutch data protection authority for ‘Uber’ after more than 170 French managers complained to a French human rights group. The Dutch agency conducted the investigation, as the European headquarters of Uber is located in the Netherlands. This punishment is the third by the Dutch data protection authority on “Uber”. The company was previously deceived by not providing sufficient transparency over the period in which it kept data from European managers and to any countries outside Europe, this data was sent. In 2018, it was punished because he did not violate the Dutch censorship authority of time. The fines imposed by European Privacy Monitoring Institutions can be up to 4% as a maximum annual income for any business in the world.