It has been revealed that the U.S. IT giant Amazon has been fined about 97 billion yen in Japanese yen by Luxembourg regulators for violating EU-European Union rules regarding the handling of personal data. I did.
This was revealed in a securities report released by Amazon on the 30th of last month.
According to it, Luxembourg's privacy regulator decided to impose a fine on Amazon on the 16th of last month for violating the EU's General Data Protection Regulation = GDPR over displaying advertisements to consumers. about it.
Luxembourg is home to Amazon's European headquarters.
The fine is 746 million euros, which is about 97 billion yen in Japanese yen, which is the largest GDPR violation ever.
The GDPR requires companies to notify individuals about the purpose of use and obtain their consent when collecting personal data in the EU, and has been in operation for three years.
Amazon argues that "I totally disagree with the authorities' decisions. The decisions are based on subjective and unverified interpretations."
Google has also been declining to impose fines on the handling of personal data by French regulators.