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Daily Dashboard | IKEA Spying Allegations Shock Nation Related reading: UK Parliament committee to review EU-UK adequacy agreement

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The New York Times reports on the range of internal and personal investigations generated by IKEA’s France-based stores. A regional court in France is now looking into whether company executives in France violated national law by ordering personal investigations of hundreds of individuals over a 10-year span. Investigations were conducted by the company for several reasons, including job applicant background checks, cases against employees accused of wrongdoing and ways to counter consumer complaints brought against the company in courts, and, according to the report, IKEA France approved more than 475,000 euros for the hiring of private investigators. A lawyer representing one plaintiff in the case said, “It is hard to conceive that this kind of thing happens in a democratic society like France … This is not Soviet Russia.” (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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