Object of the decision
On June 9, 2016, the Paris Criminal Court sentenced a VTC platform and its managers.
Indeed, the Court has, in particular :
- On public action:
- Declared the VTC Platform guilty of:
- Deceptive commercial practice by a legal entity
- Complicity in the illegal exercise of the activity of taxi operator: lack of authorization to park on the road open to public traffic while waiting for customers
- Illegal organization by a legal entity of a system for putting customers in contact with persons who engage in the road transport of people for payment in vehicles with fewer than ten seats
- Automated processing of personal data without prior declaration to the CNIL
- Unlawful recording or retention of personal data relating to an offense, conviction or security measure
- The VTC Platform was ordered to pay a fine of 800,000 euros
- Found the managers of the VTC Platform guilty of:
- Deceptive business practice
- Complicity in the illegal exercise of the activity of taxi operator: lack of authorization to park on the road open to public traffic while waiting for customers
- Illegal organization of a system for connecting customers with persons who engage in the road transport of people for payment in vehicles with fewer than ten seats
- Unlawful recording or retention of personal data relating to an offense, conviction or security measure
- The directors were sentenced to pay a fine of 30,000 euros for one and 20,000 euros for the other.
- Declared the VTC Platform guilty of:
- On the civil action:
- Jointly and severally ordered the directors and the VTC Platform to pay the civil parties 800 euros in compensation for their moral damages and 200 euros under Article 475-1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure
- Provisional execution
The opposing party has appealed.