H&M | Firm fined MILLIONS over staff surveillance

The multinational clothing retailer H&M has been fined £32.1million (€35.3million) for the illegal surveillance of some of its employees in Germany – BBC reported.

According to the publication, the German data protection watchdog found that the firm kept “excessive” records on the families, religions and illnesses of staff members at its Nuremberg service centre.

H&M has since made an “unreserved apology" to staff based at the Nuremberg service centre.

The statement, which was published to its site, read: "The incident revealed practices for processing employees’ personal data that were not in line with H&M’s guidelines and instructions. H&M takes full responsibility and wishes to make an unreserved apology to the employees at the service centre in Nuremberg.