On Monday 26 August, the Dutch data protection regulator fined the digital platform Uber €290 million for illegally transferring the data of French drivers to the United States under the ‘GDPR’ regulation on the protection of personal data.
The Dutch authority found that Uber collected sensitive information (taxi account and licence data, location data, photos, payment details, identity documents and, in some cases, criminal and medical data) from drivers and, between August 2021...