Ride-hailing platform Uber has been fined €290 million — around $324 million at current exchanges rates — by the Netherlands' privacy watchdog for breaching the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The penalty is related to transfers of personal data of drivers out of the European Union to the US, where Uber's main business is located. The GDPR allows for fines of up to 4% of global annual turnover to be levied for noncompliance. Uber's full year revenue for 2023 was around €34.5 bill ...