French Watchdog Slams Amazon with €32m Fine for Spying on Workers

[phenomlab]

This is an interesting / alarming read.

Amazon France Logistique, a subsidiary of the e-commerce giant that manages its large warehouses in France, has been fined €32m ($35m) for infringing its workers’ privacy.

Following an investigation into Amazon France Logistique’s surveillance system which was set up to monitor staff performance, France’s information regulator, considered it to be "excessively intrusive.”

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cnil-france-amazon-32m-fine-spying/

[phenomlab]

@DownPW did you hear anything about this in the local news?

[DownPW]

Yes of course @phenomlab

The methods of monitoring employees of the logistics subsidiary of Amazon France have come under the scrutiny of the GDPR. The CNIL noted several breaches and the company received a record fine of 32 million euros for unlawful surveillance of employees.

Notably the problem would come from the monitoring of the scanners which records periods of inactivity and so on.

more info here :

https://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-la-cnil-inflige-32-meteuro-d-amende-a-amazon-france-logistique-maj-92747.html

The CNIL also imposed a €10 million fine on Yahoo

[phenomlab]

@DownPW This won’t be the first time that Amazon and others like them are being bought to account. I recall seeing a documentary on the TV recently where they sent in a reporter with secret cameras to film the strict regimen and constant threat of being fired for not meeting targets that workers are placed under.

The surveillance just takes this to a whole new level in my view and it’s like being placed under a microscope for constant scrutiny. This goes well beyond the surveillance placed on prisoners!