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Amazon’s massive GDPR fine is ‘historic,’ complainant says

( July 30, 2021, 13:48 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The Luxembourg privacy regulator's decision to fine Amazon.com 746 million euros over GDPR breaches related to behavioral advertising is "historic," French civil-rights group La Quadrature du Net said in a statement today. The group, which originally complained against Amazon in 2018, said the sanction "strikes at the heart of the predatory system of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft, and should be applauded as such." The organization criticized the Irish Data Protection Commission for failing to close investigations into its other complaints against Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Google.  Statement follows in French....

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