{"id":1030462,"date":"2026-08-22T09:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030462"},"modified":"2026-08-22T09:15:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:45:54","slug":"dutch-regulator-fines-uber-966-million-for-automating-driver-suspensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/22\/dutch-regulator-fines-uber-966-million-for-automating-driver-suspensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch regulator fines Uber $966 million for automating driver suspensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch Data Protection Authority has fined Uber \u20ac825 million ($966 million) for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without adequately informing them, according to an August 17 decision reviewed by Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>The penalty would be the second-largest issued \u200byet under Europe&#8217;s General Data Protection Regulation. <\/p>\n<p>It is behind only a \u20ac1.2 billion fine imposed on Meta by Ireland in 2023 for unlawfully transferring European Facebook users&#8217; data to the United States. Meta is appealing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch Data Protection Authority has fined Uber \u20ac825 million ($966 million) for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without adequately informing them, according to an August 17 decision reviewed by Reuters. The penalty would be the second-largest issued \u200byet under Europe&#8217;s General Data Protection Regulation. It is behind only a \u20ac1.2 billion fine imposed on Meta by Ireland in 2023 for unlawfully transferring European Facebook users&#8217; data to the United States. Meta is appealing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030489,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030462\/revisions\/1030489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}