France’s privacy watchdog has fined Amazon’s French warehouse business $35 million for using an “excessively intrusive sytem” to monitor worker performance and activity.
  • @rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23•11 months ago

    I’ve always advocated for fines to be assessed as a percentage of global annual revenue.

    “Oh, your global revenue was $100B? That will be $1b please.”

    • TheMurphyEnglish
      12•11 months ago

      EU takes 10% of the profits if rules like GDPR and other Digital acts are breached.

      But only at the first offence. The second time they take 20%.

      • @Womble@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•11 months ago

        its €10M or 2% turnover whichever is higher, doubling for more sever infringements. Fining based on turnover is the way to go as it eliminates wriggling out of fines and makes them hurt.