Dutch Regulator Fines Taxi App Yango $117 Million for Data Transfer to Russia
Regulators said the company failed to protect passenger and driver data under EU rules and ordered an immediate stop to the transfers.
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The company behind the taxi app Yango has been fined 100 million euros for storing driver and customer data on Russian servers. By doing so, the company violated European privacy rules, concludes the Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP). The AP launched an investigation in 2023, together with the privacy regulators of Finland and Norway, the EU countries where Yango operates. That investigation revealed that the company stored scans of, among ot…
Dutch regulator fines taxi app Yango $117 million for data transfer to Russia
The Dutch data protection agency said on Friday it had imposed a 100 million euro ($117 million) fine on mobile taxi app Yango for transferring the personal data of its customers to Russia. AP, as the regulator is known, imposed the fine on MLU, a company incorporated in the Netherlands which is behind the units of Yango in Norway and Finland, it said in a statement.
The internationally operating Yango app is said to have transferred information about drivers and passengers to Russia. Now the operators have been sentenced to a large million-dollar sentence.
Yangon users' data has been transferred to Russia.
The company has not been able to prove that the information would not end up with the Russian authorities.
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