<story><title>Amazon Gets Record $888M EU Fine over Data Violations</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-30/amazon-given-record-888-million-eu-fine-for-data-privacy-breach</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjc50</author><text>Well, that&amp;#x27;s not chicken feed, even for Amazon. Still a bit light on detail?&lt;p&gt;The original complaint is linked from &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.laquadrature.net&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;personnal-data&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.laquadrature.net&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;personnal-data&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; - it&amp;#x27;s in French &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gafam.laquadrature.net&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;9&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;amazon.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gafam.laquadrature.net&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;9&amp;#x2F;20...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The lack of publicity or even publicly available copy of the ruling is odd. I guess the choice of Amazon to reside in one of the secretive tax haven jurisdictions of Europe has the side effect that it also has a really secretive information commissioner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ElKrist</author><text>Summarized conclusions of the original complaint [1]:&lt;p&gt;2.2.3.1 claims that Amazon does not disclose anything proving they intend to get consent from their users to process their behavoural data for ad targeting purposes&lt;p&gt;2.2.3.2  is a rebuttal against one potential line of defense from Amazon. This defense is &amp;quot;We have to collect&amp;#x2F;use data because this is precised in our contract with our users and so we need to respect this contract&amp;quot;. The rebuttal is that the main goal of the contract is a marketplace to buy&amp;#x2F;sell goods. Ad targeting is not essential to fulfill this goal and it is not something that can be considered as reasonable user expectations&lt;p&gt;2.2.3.3  It says that Amazon does not explicitly states that it&amp;#x27;s in its legitimate interest to process data and do ad targeting. It then refers to section 2.1.3 which shows that Amazon could not claim legitimate interest anyway. Section 2.1.3 is too complicated for me as it quotes a lot of precedent rulings in European law to prove it can&amp;#x27;t be legitimate interest&lt;p&gt;Please keep in mind that it is the complaint, I don&amp;#x27;t have details on the ruling of today&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gafam.laquadrature.net&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;9&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;amazon.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gafam.laquadrature.net&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;9&amp;#x2F;20...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon Gets Record $888M EU Fine over Data Violations</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-30/amazon-given-record-888-million-eu-fine-for-data-privacy-breach</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjc50</author><text>Well, that&amp;#x27;s not chicken feed, even for Amazon. Still a bit light on detail?&lt;p&gt;The original complaint is linked from &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.laquadrature.net&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;personnal-data&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.laquadrature.net&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;personnal-data&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; - it&amp;#x27;s in French &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gafam.laquadrature.net&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;9&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;amazon.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gafam.laquadrature.net&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;9&amp;#x2F;20...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The lack of publicity or even publicly available copy of the ruling is odd. I guess the choice of Amazon to reside in one of the secretive tax haven jurisdictions of Europe has the side effect that it also has a really secretive information commissioner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fmajid</author><text>At least the Luxembourg DPA is doing its job, unlike the Irish DPA that seems to think it is a division of the Irish Industrial Development Agency charged with shielding multinationals from accountability.</text></comment>