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    The blurred lines of employee monitoring under GDPR

    2024-02-09T20:03:00Z

    The French data regulator’s fine against an Amazon warehouse manager for violating employees’ rights to privacy in the workplace once again raises questions about what constitutes an overzealous approach to employee monitoring and why companies fail to recognize the signs.

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    Examining precedent set by French DPA’s Amazon employee monitoring fine

    2024-02-07T18:03:00Z

    The decision by France’s data regulator to fine an Amazon warehouse manager for breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation over the way it monitored employee productivity raises questions about the reach data protection authorities have over corporate conduct.

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    CFPB, NLRB to collaborate on monitoring employee surveillance

    2023-03-08T22:40:00Z

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and National Labor Relations Board pledged to share information regarding instances of improper employer use of surveillance tools and the sale of employees’ personal information.

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    German laptop retailer fined $12.7M under GDPR for employee surveillance

    2021-01-11T19:08:00Z

    A German data regulator fined an online laptop and electronic goods retailer €10.4 million (U.S. $12.7 million) for video-monitoring employees for at least two years without legal basis.

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    H&M Germany fined $41.3M in one of largest GDPR penalties

    2020-10-01T16:56:00Z

    In one of the largest GDPR fines imposed, a regional data protection authority in Germany fined H&M Germany €35.2 million (U.S. $41.3 million) for excessive monitoring of several hundred employees by one of the retailer’s subsidiaries.

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    Hurry-Up Offense on Employee Surveillance

    2015-05-19T12:45:00Z

    Image: Surveillance of employee activity is nothing new in the financial services sector, but the financial crisis, the LIBOR scandal, and other misconduct are driving new demands for smarter, better surveillance. Inside, we look at some of the IT challenges to extracting better intelligence from your data. The goal is ...