For the CNIL, the data collection carried out by the subsidiary of the American online distribution giant constitutes an “excessive activity and performance monitoring system”.
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France slaps the fingers of the American giant. Amazon France Logistique (AFL) was sentenced, Tuesday January 23, to a fine of 32 million euros by the National Commission for Information Technology and Liberties (Cnil) for “its excessively intrusive system for monitoring employee activity and performance”, according to a press release from the authority.
For the CNIL, the collection of data carried out by the subsidiary of the American online distribution giant, via scanners used by warehouse employees to process packages, constitutes a “excessive activity and performance monitoring system”. These scanners record inactivity times greater than ten minutes or the rate of package processing “to the nearest second”notes the CNIL.
The French privacy watchdog sanctioned AFL on the basis of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and imposed a fine equivalent to around 3% of the French company’s turnover. A sanction “almost unprecedented in terms of percentage of turnover”she stressed to AFP, the maximum incurred being 4%.