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French regulator fines Amazon $35 million over its surveillance system of warehouse workers (techcrunch.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Conservatively:

Amazon makes approximately 800k per minute, so in about 45 minutes they’ve recouped their money. Make it one hour just to cover all other costs, lawyers, etc involved in this.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is that revenue, or profit? Also is this specifically revenue on France or globally?

[–] dojan 14 points 10 months ago

Doesn’t matter as it won’t be enough to prevent them from continuing breaking the law.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Idk I did some math from the first search result I found

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's kind of a big difference. If a company makes 300M but spends 400M it's unsustainable despite it being huge numbers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That’s just the cost of doing business for Amazon. Why should they change their tactics if the fees are that low.