The office of Serbia’s Information and Personal Data Protection Commissioner says it will look into the operations of Russian taxi-booking service Yandex Taxi after cyber security officials in Lithuania said user data may be compromised by the service’s mobile application.
State authorities in Serbia, Russia’s chief ally in the Balkans, have been silent on the warnings from Lithuania, which reflect deep unease in the European Union and United States over alleged state-sponsored Russian hacking, data breaches and election meddling.
The office of the independent Commissioner told BIRN it had launched a “supervisory procedure”, stressing the importance of finding out where precisely user data from Serbia is being stored.
Though its corporate base is in Amsterdam, Yandex Taxi is part of Russia’s top search-engine company, Yandex. The company denies any wrongdoing and says its data use and storage strictly complies with European Union regulations.
