Amazon fined record $887 million over EU privacy violations
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Now that Amazon's Q2 earnings are in, it has submitted a 10-Q filing with the SEC that includes additional details like this eye-popping note about a fine imposed by Luxembourg's National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) (via Bloomberg).
On July 16, 2021, the Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection (the CNPD") issued a decision against Amazon Europe Core S.a r.l. claiming that Amazon's processing of personal data did not comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. The decision imposes a fine of 746 million and corresponding practice revisions. We believe the CNPD's decision to be without merit and intend to defend ourselves vigorously in this matter.
The largest GDPR fine to date was a 50 million penalty...