{"id":18349,"date":"2024-11-22T17:55:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T17:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=18349"},"modified":"2024-11-22T17:55:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T17:55:49","slug":"italian-food-delivery-app-foodinho-eats-another-privacy-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=18349","title":{"rendered":"Italian food delivery app Foodinho eats another privacy fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not for the first time, food delivery firm <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foodinho.it\">Foodinho<\/a> has been spanked by Italy\u2019s privacy watchdog. Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/media-telecom\/italy-watchdog-fines-foodinho-5-million-euros-rider-data-breaches-2024-11-22\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reuters<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/03\/31\/spains-glovo-acquires-italys-foodinho-to-expand-on-demand-delivery-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Glovo-owned<\/a> on-demand delivery app has been fined \u20ac5 million ($5.20 million) after it was found to have unlawfully processed the data of more than 35,000 riders registered on the platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Issues identified included riders\u2019 geolocation data being transferred to third parties without their knowledge, including \u2014 up to August 2023 \u2014 when they were not working. The watchdog has ordered changes related to the app\u2019s messaging to riders and GPS feature, so the tracking can be turned off when riders are not on the job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foodinho has also been banned from using riders\u2019 biometric data, such as facial recognition, for identity verification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/07\/06\/italys-dpa-fines-glovo-owned-foodinho-3m-orders-changes-to-algorithmic-management-of-riders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Back in 2021<\/a>, when Foodinho had around 19,000 registered riders, Italy\u2019s watchdog fined it around $3 million over a laundry list of data protection and algorithmic management issues. So the app hasn\u2019t proved to be \u2018once bitten, twice shy\u2019 on privacy compliance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><em>Source: <\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/11\/22\/italian-food-delivery-app-foodinho-eats-another-privacy-fine\/\">techcrunch.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not for the first time, food delivery firm Foodinho has been spanked by Italy\u2019s privacy watchdog. Per Reuters, the Glovo-owned on-demand delivery app has been fined \u20ac5 million ($5.20 million) after it was found to have unlawfully processed the data of more than 35,000 riders registered on the platform. Issues identified included riders\u2019 geolocation data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}