H&M fined $41 million for allegedly spying on employees
Since it first went into effect in May 2018, the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been responsible for dishing out some of the largest tech privacy fines in recent memory. While many of those most noteworthy cases involving the likes of Amazon and Google are under appeal, EU regulators have still managed to make other companies pay up.
In one of those cases, fashion behemoth H&M was fined $41 million for reportedly keeping excessive records on its employees’ families, vacations, illnesses, and religious beliefs. Regulators claim H&M managers collected that information and then used it to evaluate workers’ performances. H&M accepted full responsibility following the fine.
