social.sour.is
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
@NightOwl@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago

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

abcnews.go.com

external-link
message-square
7
fedilink
276
external-link

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

abcnews.go.com

@NightOwl@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago
message-square
7
fedilink
France’s privacy watchdog has fined Amazon’s French warehouse business $35 million for using an “excessively intrusive system” to monitor worker performance and activity
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • @nick@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    33•2 years ago

    Oh no, 4 minutes of profit for Amazon. That’ll learn them.

  • Octospider
    link
    fedilink
    English
    25•2 years ago

    $35 million is a rounding error for Amazon. They don’t care. When the punishment is a fine, then it’s not a problem for the rich.

    • @kautau@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      10•
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      It’s literally what they consider as the cost of doing business, they have data models about how many laws they can break and what the gains are vs fines. The fines are never more than the gains

    • @lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      1•2 years ago

      Not even a slap on the wrist.

  • @krimson@feddit.nl
    link
    fedilink
    23•2 years ago

    What a joke of an amount.

  • @bhmnscmm@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    14•2 years ago

    A little ironic considering France’s recently approved plans for mass surveillance.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/18/french-courts-approval-of-olympics-ai-surveillance-plan-fuels-privacy-concerns

  • The Bard in Green
    link
    fedilink
    12•2 years ago

    Pay a cost of doing business fee to the government. Thank you, Amazon, for choosing France.

World News@lemmy.ml

!worldnews@lemmy.ml

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !worldnews@lemmy.ml

News from around the world!

Rules:

  • Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc

  • No NSFW content

  • No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc

  • 7 users / day
  • 997 users / week
  • 1.26K users / month
  • 11.3K users / 6 months
  • 37.8K subscribers
  • 16.6K Posts
  • 141K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • @Rumblestiltskin@lemmy.ml
  • @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
  • Jack.
  • @zephyreks@lemmy.ml
  • @OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
  • BE: 0.19.3
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org