January 24, 2024 BY Elizabeth Anderson

French privacy watchdog fines Amazon €32m for excessive monitoring of warehouse staff

Reportedly, managers at Amazon France Logistique keep such close tabs on employees that it infringes several rules in the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation. CNIL’s investigation tagged using barcode scanners at various checkpoints along the chain as intrusive. Amazon strongly contested any irregularity in the use of these devices and said: We strongly…

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