Amazon on Friday disclosed it has received notice of a €746 million (U.S. $887 million) fine in Luxembourg under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for unlawful processing of personal data.
The fine, which has yet to be confirmed by the Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD), would completely shift the enforcement landscape of the EU’s landmark privacy law. The total is more than double the combined amount of the 741 penalties handed out under the GDPR to date, according to Privacy Affairs, and nearly 15 times larger than the €50 million penalty Google was hit with in France in 2019 that has stood as the record since.
