French Regulator Slaps Amazon with $35 Million Fine for Excessive Worker Surveillance

France's data privacy watchdog, CNIL, has fined Amazon's logistics subsidiary in France €32 million for implementing an "overly intrusive" surveillance system on warehouse workers, focusing on barcode scanners and data gathering practices. The CNIL found indicators tracking employee scanner inactivity and interruptions to be illegal under GDPR, leading to excessive monitoring. Amazon disagrees with the decision, citing industry norms and the need for load balancing, and has agreed to make adjustments to the system in response to the fine.