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The German government of knowledge coverage said Wednesday that it had fined Swedish fashion chain H with more than 35 million euros ($41 million).
The amount is the fine for such violations in Germany since its last knowledge coverage law came into effect two years ago, a spokesman for the German factor control body told the AFP, in a country known for jealously protecting the right to privacy.
Business leaders at the group’s service center in Nuremberg delved too deeper into the privacy of their employees, obtaining data “ranging from risk-free main points to family circle disorders and devout beliefs. “
Detailed “disease symptoms and diagnoses” were digitally recorded and stored, the government said in a statement.
“This case shows a grave for coverage of employee knowledge at site H
“The purpose of the fine imposed is appropriate and appropriate to deter companies from violating the privacy of their employees. “
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The supervisory body said the service’s intermediate commands held “welcome” conversations with workers after they returned from illness or vacation.
Symptoms and diagnoses of diseases, such as holiday reports, have been documented and made available to up to 50 managers.
“The mix of seeking their privacy and the uninterrupted recording of the activities in which they were involved has led to an intrusive violation of the rights of those affected,” the authority said.
Data collection had been ongoing since at least 2014 and was only known when data could be held across the enterprise for a few hours in October 2019 due to a calculation error.
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The fine is one of the similar in Europe to the European Union’s knowledge coverage rules, known as GDPR.
The law, implemented in 2018, stipulates that Americans must explicitly authorize the use of their knowledge and may impose fines on corporations representing 4% of their overall annual income.
France fined Google 50 million euros ($59 million) in January 2019 for not providing the available data on its knowledge consent policies, denouncing the use of targeted advertising through the giant.
Meanwhile, in July last year, British Airways fined 183 million pounds (201 million euros, $236 million) through the UK knowledge government after hackers stole the bank’s main points with thousands of passengers.
Germans attach wonderful importance to privacy, as evidenced by their continued and prominent use of banknotes and coins instead of credit cards, and is perceived as a reaction to oppressive surveillance under the Nazis and East German Stasi.
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