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French regulator fines Amazon $35 million over its surveillance system of warehouse workers
France’s data privacy watchdog, the CNIL, has fined Amazon’s logistics subsidiary in France €32 million ($35 million).
When an order is processed, an Amazon picker grabs a product, scans it with the connected scanner and puts it into a crate so that it can be shipped to the customer. “More generally, the CNIL considered excessive to keep all the data collected by the system, as well as the resulting statistical indicators, for all employees and temporary workers, for a period of 31 days,” the French regulator wrote. And in more details, Amazon says that the “stow machine gun” indicator has been created so that workers can inspect products before they are stored to make sure that they aren’t damaged.
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