Dutch DPA fines Uber EUR 824 990 000 for unlawful automated decision-making and insufficient information on profiling
The Dutch Data Protection Authority has fined Uber approximately 825 million euros for violating GDPR rules on automated decision-making and failing to properly inform drivers about how profiling data was used against them.
Why this matters: This is one of the largest GDPR fines ever handed down, and it targets something that affects a lot of working people directly. Uber was making automated decisions about drivers — suspensions, penalties, account actions — without giving them a real explanation or a meaningful way to challenge those decisions. That is not a paperwork violation. It is a power imbalance baked into an algorithm. When a platform can quietly decide your livelihood and you cannot see why or push back, the scale of this fine is the clearest signal yet that regulators take that seriously.
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