France fines Amazon $35 million for 'excessively intrusive' monitoring of warehouse staff
Wednesday, 24 January 2024 France's privacy watchdog, CNIL, has fined Amazon's French warehouse business 32 million euros ($35 million) for using an "excessively intrusive system" to monitor worker performance. The system, employing handheld barcode scanners called "stow machine guns," tracked employees to the nearest second, leading to breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation. C
Amazon Fined by French Regulator , for ‘Excessively Intrusive’ Staff Surveillance.
The French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) announced on Jan. 23 that the manager of the retailer's large warehouses in the country has been fined $34.7 million, CNBC reports. .
According to the French regulator,...
Wednesday, 24 January 2024
