Business Insider reports that H&M has been fined $41.1 million by a German regulator.<br />The company was caught monitoring "several hundred employees" at its service center in Nuremberg, Germany.<br />In 2018 The EU introduced new General Data Protection Regulation laws.<br />This is the second-largest fine levied against a single company over data breaches since the 2018 laws were put into effect.<br />Since 2014 supervisors and managers at H&M have been storing data on employees.<br />The data includes information from meetings and workplace conversations, such as medical symptoms, family issues, and religious beliefs.<br />This data was sometimes used to make employment decisions.<br />H&M compensated all affected staff, and said that the company views privacy and data protection as "top priority."
