{"id":8352,"date":"2021-07-31T01:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T23:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2021\/07\/31\/amazon-will-fight-proposed-887-million-eu-privacy-violation-fine\/"},"modified":"2021-07-31T22:14:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T20:14:38","slug":"amazon-will-fight-proposed-887-million-eu-privacy-violation-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2021\/07\/31\/amazon-will-fight-proposed-887-million-eu-privacy-violation-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Will Fight Proposed $887 Million EU Privacy Violation Fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has reportedly been hit with a fine of approximately $887 million \u2014 \u20ac746 million \u2014 as well as revision guidelines for its practices over alleged EU privacy law violations. That\u2019s according to recent reports detailing the fine, which is being imposed by Luxembourg\u2019s National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD).<br \/>\nThe decision to impose the fine was not made public by the CNPD, however. And Amazon hasn\u2019t said exactly which policy revisions have been imposed either. Instead, it was revealed via Amazon\u2019s own Q2 quarterly earnings report. Specifically, the report indicates that CNPD slapped Amazon Europe Core S.\u00e0 r.l. with the fine. And that the claimed GDPR violation was the result of alleged mishandling of personal data.<br \/>\nThe news follows prior allegations proposed by EU commissioners back in late 2020. Namely, with claims suggesting that Amazon misused \u201cnon-public data\u201d in order to compete with other sellers in France and Germany.<br \/>\nWhat is Amazon saying about this purported EU privacy violation?<br \/>\nIn Amazon\u2019s report, the company states that the CNPD issued its decision on July 16 of this year. And that it imposes both the fine and \u201ccorresponding practice revisions.\u201d<br \/>\nBut the company also says that it believes the decision is meritless. And that the company plans to defend itself.<br \/>\nAccording to Amazon\u2019s statement, no data breach has occurred and no customer data has been \u201cexposed\u201d to any third-parties. Moreover, Amazon says, that isn\u2019t even disputed. While no date has been set for an appeal, Amazon goes on to point out that the laws in question are still new and untested. More specifically, it notes that \u201chow we show customers relevant advertising relies on subjective and untested interpretations of European privacy law.\u201d<br \/>\nThe company also contests that the fine itself is \u201centirely out of proportion.\u201d<br \/>\nCan the fine stand as imposed?<br \/>\nNow, the GDPR regulations themselves may add some weight to Amazon\u2019s argument in this matter. Not least of all, because the fine amount imposed against Amazon in this EU privacy law violation case is more than the 4-percent of income allowed by the regulations. In fact, it equates to around 4.2-percent of Amazon\u2019s 2020 income \u2014 at around $21.3 billion.<br \/>\nSo, at the very least, Amazon\u2019s fight might result in a lowered fine amount. At 4-percent, that figure would be closer to $852 million. But that doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that Amazon will be able to fight its way out of this either. Whether or not that\u2019s the case remains to be seen.<br \/>\nThe post Amazon Will Fight Proposed $887 Million EU Privacy Violation Fine appeared first on Android Headlines.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Amazon-Prime-box-01-DG-AH-2020.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has reportedly been hit with a fine of approximately $887 million \u2014 \u20ac746 million \u2014 as well as revision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8353,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8354,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352\/revisions\/8354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}