This is the best summary I could come up with:
The CNIL says that Amazon France Logistique has implemented a “surveillance system” that is “overly intrusive.”
In particular, the CNIL is focusing on the warehouse barcode scanner and Amazon’s data gathering practices related to the connected device.
When an order is processed, an Amazon picker grabs a product, scans it with the connected scanner and puts it into a crate so that it can be shipped to the customer.
“More generally, the CNIL considered excessive to keep all the data collected by the system, as well as the resulting statistical indicators, for all employees and temporary workers, for a period of 31 days,” the French regulator wrote.
“We strongly disagree with the CNIL’s conclusions, which are factually incorrect, and we might appeal the decision,” Amazon wrote.
And in more details, Amazon says that the “stow machine gun” indicator has been created so that workers can inspect products before they are stored to make sure that they aren’t damaged.
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Oh wow, take that, Amazon! I hope they don’t financially recover from this.
They are considering appealing but not too strongly considering because that’s boring and this is just like me considering appealing a $35 parking ticket. Part of me wants to but it’s just. $35 and I’d probably have to get up early and shit.
Why not make it 35 billion?? They can afford it
From the article:
Both the “idle time”, which indicates a period of scanner downtime of ten minutes or more, and the “latency under ten minutes”, which tracks scanner interruptions between one and ten minutes are deemed illegal by the CNIL when it comes to data processing. The CNIL is using the GDPR as the legal basis of the case.
Amazon has also implemented a “stow machine gun” indicator to prevent mistakes. It signals an error if you scan an item less than 1.25 seconds after scanning the previous item. It sounds like a way to prevent double-scanning mistakes. But that’s a GDPR issue too, according to the CNIL.
I think these all seem like entirely reasonable things for Amazon to track.
Are you tracked down to 10 minute intervals at your job?
No, but I’m not paid hourly - if I sit around idle, I’m generally just wasting my own time.
Yeah, the headline makes it sound like they had cameras in the toilets or something.
When the punishment is a fine, it’s only a crime if you’re poor. 
Next time make it 35 mil each day the system is up.
yeah but did they take it down? If I built an illegal structure they would fine me every day until I took it down
They have been instructed to take them down and will have to pay a further daily fine for every day they’re not complying (given, the fine is not a way to get away with it, it’s just to make them act quickly on the matter; they could go to court again if they fail to comply in the long run).
i honestly wonder how you become so morally bankrupt and empty inside that you design these sort of worker tracking tools. killing people in a war somehow seems more benign, or more naturalistic than slowly whittling down people’s will to live by not giving them bathroom breaks in order to save someone else a microscopic amount of money
