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Uber Italia condemned by the Privacy Guarantor, maxi fine of over 4 million euros

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Uber Italia has been condemned by the Italian Privacy Guarantor , it will have to pay two fines of 2.12 million euros each, for a total of 4.24 million euros . The Guarantor found a lack of transparency in the processing of users’ personal data. The privacy policy would not have allowed users to have full awareness of the type of data collected by the multinational.

Not only that, Uber would not even have complied with national regulations, for example where they require companies to communicate the processing of data for geolocation purposes to the Guarantor . A rule that preceded the new system introduced by the GDPR and which would never be respected by Uber.

Uber Technologies, based in San Francisco, and the European subsidiary, Uber BV, based in Amsterdam, will have to answer.

Uber’s breach would have undermined the rights of over 1.5 million Italian users, including drivers.

With today’s provision, the Authority therefore sanctions the Dutch company Uber BV and the US Uber Technologies, as joint data controllers, each responsible for violations of the Privacy Code committed against Italian users. The sanctions concern in particular the inappropriate information provided to users (as it lacks the indication relating to the joint ownership of the processing) and “formulated in a generic and approximate manner” with “unclear and incomplete information” and “not easy to understand”

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reads the note published by the Guarantor .

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