Hello, I'm Eilish and I'm a tech and data specialist.

Hi, I'm Moira and I'm an employment specialist, and we both work in Fieldfisher's Silicon Valley team.

Today, we're going to talk through the recent fine issued by the French data protection

regulator, the canille, against Amazon France Logistique, for 32 million euros as a result

of what the canil has deemed excessively intrusive employee monitoring systems and a lack

of transparency and security in relation to the use of

video surveillance systems in breach of the GDPR.

So, Moira, could you kick us off with a quick summary of what's happened here?

Sure, thanks, Eilish.

So following media articles and complaints by workers, with a quick summary of what's happened here. Sure, thanks, Eilish.

So following media articles and complaints by workers,

the French authorities carried out spot checks and commenced an investigation into the staff surveillance system

used in Amazon's French warehouses

that were run by Amazon France Logiste or AFL, a subsidiary of Amazon EU-Salle.

Can you tell us what kind of staff surveillance AFL used?

AFL equipped its warehouse staff, whose role was broadly to receive items and prepare

parcels for delivery to customers with handheld barcode scanners.

The staff were identified on the scanner and used it to receive instructions to carry out

tasks in real time, but the scanner also continuously collected and recorded data relating

to the activity of the workers.

AFL used quality metrics such as the Stowe Machine Gun indicator,

which tracked the speed at which workers scanned items and signified an error when an item was scanned too quickly

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