{"id":27296,"date":"2021-07-31T06:26:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T06:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=27296"},"modified":"2021-07-31T06:26:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T06:26:48","slug":"amazon-hit-with-886m-fine-for-alleged-data-law-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2021\/07\/31\/amazon-hit-with-886m-fine-for-alleged-data-law-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon hit with $886m fine for alleged data law breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i85\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Amazon has been hit with an $886.6m (\u00a3636m) fine for allegedly breaking European Union data protection laws.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i85\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The fine was issued by Luxembourg&#8217;s National Commission for Data Protection, which claimed the tech giant&#8217;s processing of personal data did not comply with EU law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i85\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Amazon said it believed the fine to be &#8220;without merit&#8221;, adding that it would defend itself &#8220;vigorously&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i85\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A spokeswoman told the BBC there had been &#8220;no data breach&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has been hit with an $886.6m (&pound;636m) fine for allegedly breaking European Union data protection laws. The fine was issued by Luxembourg&rsquo;s National Commission for Data Protection, which claimed the tech giant&rsquo;s processing of personal data did not comply with EU law. Amazon said it believed the fine to be &ldquo;without merit&rdquo;, adding that it would defend itself &ldquo;vigorously&rdquo;. A spokeswoman told the BBC there had been &ldquo;no data breach&rdquo;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27298,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27296\/revisions\/27298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}