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The busiest internet route in the world could not simply be put on hold for three entire years while governments worked to establish a new legal framework for these data flows,
the association's European head of policy, Alexandre Roure, said in a statement Any retroactive fines by data protection authorities are especially worrisome given that these very privacy watchdogs failed to provide helpful guidance during this period of significant legal uncertainty, in absence of any clear legal framework,
This constitutes a serious violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),
In Europe, the GDPR protects the fundamental rights of people, by requiring businesses and governments to handle personal data with due care,
Because of this, the protection of personal data was not sufficient,
Uber did not meet the requirements of the GDPR to ensure the level of protection to the data with regard to transfers to the US. That is very serious,
DPA chairman Aleid Wolfsen said This flawed decision and extraordinary fine are completely unjustified,
Because Uber no longer used Standard Contractual Clauses from August 2021, the data of drivers from the EU were insufficiently protected,
This flawed decision and extraordinary fine are completely unjustified. Uber’s cross-border data transfer process was compliant with GDPR during a 3-year period of immense uncertainty between the EU and US. We will appeal and remain confident that common sense will prevail,
Uber spokesperson Caspar Nixon told Reuters in an email Uber transferred personal data of European taxi drivers to the United States and failed to appropriately safeguard the data,