H&M has been fined for violating the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The fast-fashion giant has been fined $41 million by a German privacy watchdog for violations of the GDRP for the excessive monitoring of several hundred employees at H&M’s customer service centre subsidiary in Nuremberg, Germany. It is the second-largest fine to be levied to date against a single company for GDPR violations involving how employee data is handled. The retailer took full responsibility and said it has launched a comprehensive action plan to improve the internal auditing practices to ensure data privacy compliance. It also has decided that all currently employed at the service centre, and all who have been employed for at least one month since May 2018 when GDPR came into force, will receive financial compensation.
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Source: www.dpa-international.com