Amazon Fined by French Watchdog Over Employee Surveillance

An Amazon.com fulfillment center in France.

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The French data protection watchdog fined Amazon.com Inc. €32 million ($34.9 million) for setting up a system to monitor employee activity and performance that it called “excessively intrusive.”

The authority is targeting scanners that track employee activity and performance, CNIL said in a statement on Tuesday.