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Amazon fined record EUR746 million for GDPR privacy breach (update*)

By Matthew Newman and Vesela Gladicheva
  • 30 Jul 2021 07:52
  • 30 Jul 2021 09:41
Amazon.com has been fined a record 746 million euros ($886 million) for a data-privacy breach in violation of the EU’s strict data protection rules, the company said in a US regulatory filing today.
The Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection, or CNPD, levied the penalty on July 16, Amazon said

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Matthew Newman

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Matthew Newman is a chief correspondent for MLex and writes about data protection, privacy, telecoms, cyber security and artificial intelligence. Matthew began his journalism career in 1991 in community newspapers. He worked as a reporter in Riga, Latvia in 1993 and then moved to Chicago where he covered local news. In 1995, he became a personal finance reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, and was then transferred to Brussels in 1999. He specialized in EU regulatory affairs, including trade and telecom issues. He began covering competition for Bloomberg News as an EU court reporter in 2004. In 2010, he was named spokesman for Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner. In January 2012, he helped launch the commission’s proposal to overall data protection rules.

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