A transport affiliate of online retail giant Amazon was fined 2 million euros (U.S. $2.2 million) by the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) for trying to carry out criminal record checks on freelance truck drivers it wanted to hire.

The regulator, in a decision published last month, also ordered the company to cease demanding prospective drivers provide certificates proving clean criminal records, delete the information it already had, and adapt its processing in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Neil Hodge is a freelance business journalist and photographer based in Nottingham, United Kingdom. He writes on insurance and risk management, corporate governance, internal audit, compliance, and legal...