At the end of July, it was reported that the national privacy watchdog had imposed a record fine of for illegally collecting and using its users' data.

The American tech giant, whose European activities are run from Luxembourg--which explains why the procedure is taking place here--and the data protection agency will meet at the bar of the administrative court this Friday at 9.30am for a request for an interim measure, a preliminary step to .

In a first reaction this summer, Amazon stressed not only that it had participated in all stages of the procedure, but also that it had not exposed any of its customers' data, deeming the sanction extremely excessive.

The CNPD had not communicated the decision--the law prevents it from doing so--but , at the beginning of August, the sanction that appeared in the financial report of the American company.

This story was first published in French on . It has been translated and edited for Delano.