Uber—and its execs—hit with fines in France for illegal taxi service
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Uber has been hit with a €800,000 fine for running an illegal transport service and breaking privacy laws in France.
The penalty was dished out to the ride-sharing app by a French court on Thursday. Additionally, Uber’s EMEA director Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty and Thibaud Simphal—the company’s boss in France—were slapped with fines of €30,000, and €20,000 respectively. The two men were taken into custody by French authorities a year ago.
Half of those sanctions—and the €964,000 (€800,000 plus court fees) that Uber must pay—are “suspended sentences,” meaning they need only pay 50 percent of the fines providing there are no further breaches of the law.
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