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Uber hit with a nearly $1 billion fine for automatically deactivating drivers in Europe
Uber was fined 824.9 million euros by the Dutch Data Protection Authority for breaching the EU’s GDPR.
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Uber was fined 824.9 million euros by the Dutch Data Protection Authority for breaching the EU’s GDPR. The regulator said Uber automatically deactivated driver accounts from 2018 through 2022 without any human review. The penalty, nearly one billion euros, reflects the authority’s finding that the practice violated data‑protection rules.
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