The Dutch data protection authority has fined Uber €825 million ($959.2 million) for using automatic decision-making tech to deactivate drivers’ accounts if they received poor customer reviews.

It is the second-highest penalty to be issued under the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) after Meta’s €1.2 billion ($1.4 billion) fine from 2023.

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Neil Hodge is a freelance business journalist and photographer based in Nottingham, United Kingdom. He writes on insurance and risk management, corporate governance, internal audit, compliance, and legal...