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Compliance allows you to avoid paying hefty fines and losing customer trust.
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Take, for example, [the €290,000,000 GDPR fine Uber had to pay in July 2024](https://web.archive.org/web/20250712030312/https://www.edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2024/dutch-sa-imposes-fine-290-million-euro-uber-because-transfers-drivers-data-us_en) for improperly transferring European drivers' personal data to servers in the United States. Uber's API and data infrastructure failed to implement adequate safeguards when transmitting sensitive information, including location data, payment details, identification documents, and in some cases, even criminal and medical records.
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Take, for example, [the €290,000,000 GDPR fine Uber had to pay in July 2024](https://www.edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2024/dutch-sa-imposes-fine-290-million-euro-uber-because-transfers-drivers-data-us_en) for improperly transferring European drivers' personal data to servers in the United States. Uber's API and data infrastructure failed to implement adequate safeguards when transmitting sensitive information, including location data, payment details, identification documents, and in some cases, even criminal and medical records.
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This serves as a costly reminder that privacy compliance needs to be designed into APIs from the start, particularly for international data transfers. The cost of retrofitting compliance can far exceed the cost of building it in from the start.
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