CNIL issues 10 penalties over employee monitoring practices

France's data protection authority, the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés, issued 10 sanctions over recent months to private and public entities totaling 97,000 euros. The nature of the complaints included processing the geolocation data of employees driving company vehicles while on their breaks and the use of video surveillance of employees at their workstations. The CNIL highlighted the fines came under a new simplified sanction procedure.