Luxembourg Tribunal Upholds $808 Million Fine Against Amazon for GDPR Breaches
The Luxembourg Administrative Tribunal Wednesday upheld a July 2021 decision by the National Data Protection Commission that slapped Amazon with a fine of 746 million euros ($808 million) for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) breaches. The court also ordered the platform to take corrective measures or face a daily penalty of 746,000 euros.
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The tribunal agreed with the regulator's analysis that Amazon, in the context of processing personal data for internet-based advertising, infringed several GDPR provisions, it said.
The violations concerned the legal basis for processing personal data; failure to comply with transparency obligations and to provide information to people concerned about the processing of their data; violations of data subjects' access, rectification and erasure rights; and breach of the right to object to the processing of personal data, the tribunal said. Its judgment can be appealed to the Administrative Court, it noted.