Austrian privacy activist Schrems files complaint against Amazon

Schrems is a veteran privacy campaigner who took his first legal action against Facebook as a student in 2011. — Reuters

VIENNA: Non-profit group noyb, led by privacy activist Max Schrems, said it had filed a complaint against Amazon to the German data protection authority over a lack of data security in a case it said could lead to fines of more than US$4bil (RM16.73bil).

Amazon's email servers, used for direct communication between customers and third-party sellers on the platform, do not allow baseline industry encryption in some cases, breaking security rules under the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), noyb said on Feb 19.