- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Kyle Brasseur2024-01-24T03:50:00
Amazon’s warehouse management arm in France was assessed a penalty of 32 million euros (U.S. $35 million) for violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by excessively tracking the productivity of employees.
The fine, levied in December and announced Tuesday by the French data protection authority, CNIL, in a press release, was imposed against Amazon France Logistique for multiple alleged breaches of the GDPR related to data minimalization and lawful video surveillance processing.
Amazon said in a statement it “strongly disagreed” with the CNIL’s findings and reserved the right to appeal.
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