Google fined $463 million for breaching EU rule on location data

Source: thehill.com · Section: politics · Bias: Center · Published: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:32:45 GMT

Google has been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) for breaching the European Union's strict privacy rules because it mishandled users' location data, the bloc's data privacy watchdog said Monday. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said its investigation found Google did not lawfully or fairly process location data in users’ Web & App Activity, a Google...

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