France fines Amazon $35 million for 'excessively intrusive' monitoring of warehouse staff

France's privacy watchdog, CNIL, has fined Amazon's French warehouse business 32 million euros ($35 million) for using an "excessively intrusive system" to monitor worker performance. The system, employing handheld barcode scanners called "stow machine guns," tracked employees to the nearest second, leading to breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation. C

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