By The Wall Street Journal
Published on January 23, 2024
France’s privacy watchdog fined Amazon.com’s AMZN 2.71%increase local warehouse management business, saying the company had put in place an “excessively intrusive” system to keep track of staff performance.
The country’s data-protection regulator, the CNIL, announced Tuesday that it had fined Amazon France Logistique 32 million euros ($34.8 million) in late December, saying the business was collecting data from scanners used to process packages to gauge employee productivity and downtime.
The CNIL said the scanners kept track of periods of inactivity exceeding 10 minutes and when a package is scanned “too rapidly,” or in less than 1.25 seconds from the previous item, calling such a system excessive as it could pressure staff to justify each break or interruption.