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Amazon France Logistique fined €32m for intrusive employee monitoring

The logo of Amazon is seen at the entrance of the company logistics center in Bretigny-sur-Orge, France. T
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CNIL found that the company’s monitoring and data collection were disproportionate and excessively intrusive.

Amazon France Logistique has been fined €32m ($35m) by the French Data Protection Authority Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) for setting up an “excessively intrusive system” to monitor the activities and performance of several thousand of its employees.

The company, which manages Amazon’s large warehouses

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