Uber slapped with €290m fine over data transfers to US

The fine is the highest penalty ever issued by the Dutch Data Protection Authority against any company, a spokesperson said by email. It’s also the biggest fine Uber received globally.

The Dutch Data Protection Authority said Uber was collecting information of drivers from Europe and retaining them on US servers. 

Taxi-hailing company Uber has been hit with a record €290m fine by the Dutch privacy watchdog for failing to abide by European protection standards when it shipped swathes of sensitive data about its drivers to the US.

The Dutch Data Protection Authority said Uber was collecting information of drivers from Europe, such as taxi licences, location data, and in some cases criminal and medical data, and retaining them on US servers.