Executive Summary

Google was fined €403 million by Ireland's Data Protection Commission for violating GDPR rules in handling location data from May 2018 to February 2020. The DPC ordered the company to bring its processing into compliance within six months.

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Intelligence Metadata - Source Publisher: The Hacker News - Published Date: 2026-09-21T16:57:31+00:00 - Category: other

Original Description: Google has been fined €403 million for breaking the EU's data protection law, the GDPR, in the way three of its features handled people's location data from May 2018 to February 2020. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), Google's lead regulator in the EU, also ordered the company to make its processing comply with the law within 6 months. The DPC has not said publicly which

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