{"id":119524,"date":"2021-08-02T12:55:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T12:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=119524"},"modified":"2021-08-02T12:55:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T12:55:57","slug":"amazon-hit-with-record-eu-data-privacy-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/amazon-hit-with-record-eu-data-privacy-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon hit with record EU data privacy fine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question- Consider the following statements-<br>1) Amazon has been hit with an $886.6 million (746 million euro) European Union fine for processing personal data<br>2) Fine was imposed by Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD)<br>3) GDPR requires companies to seek people&#8217;s consent before using their personal data or face steep fines<br>Select the correct answer using the code given below-<\/strong><br>(a) Only 1 and 3<br>(b) Only 2 and 3<br>(c) Only 2<br>(d) All of the above<br><strong>Ans. (d)<br>Related Facts-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Amazon.com Inc has been hit with an $886.6 million (746 million euro) European Union fine for processing personal data in violation of the EU&#8217;s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).<\/li><li>The Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) imposed the fine on Amazon Europe Core in a July 16 decision.<\/li><li>EU&#8217;s General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, requires companies to seek people&#8217;s consent before using their personal data or face steep fines.<\/li><li>The Wall Street Journal had reported in June that the company could be fined more than $425 million under the European Union&#8217;s privacy law, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/li><li>In December, France&#8217;s data privacy watchdog handed out its biggest ever fine of 100 million euros ($118.82 million) to Google for breaching the nation&#8217;s rules on online advertising trackers. ($1 = 0.8416 euros).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By- Yogesh Pratap Singh<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reference- <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/companies\/news\/amazon-hit-with-886-million-eu-data-privacy-fine-11627652289090.html.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/companies\/news\/amazon-hit-with-886-million-eu-data-privacy-fine-11627652289090.html.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question- Consider the following statements-1) Amazon has been hit with an $886.6 million (746 million euro) European Union fine for processing personal data2) Fine was imposed by Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD)3) GDPR requires companies to seek people&#8217;s consent before using their personal data or face steep finesSelect the correct answer using the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":119525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2529],"class_list":["post-119524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119526,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119524\/revisions\/119526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}