Ireland's Data Protection Commission has fined Google €403 million, or $463 million, after finding the company infringed the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation in how it processed users' location data. The investigation covered Google's handling of location data between 2018 and 2020 through three features: Web & App Activity, Location History, and Location Accuracy. The penalty ranks as the fourth-largest among the more than €4 billion in fines imposed by the Irish regulator since it became the lead EU privacy authority for many major U.S. technology companies under GDPR. The DPC also ordered Google to bring its location-data processing into compliance within six months, and the company remains subject to three separate DPC statutory inquiries that the regulator said are at an advanced stage. Google said the case concerns historical policies and that it has significantly changed its location-data practices since 2019, including letting users auto-delete personal data on a rolling basis and store timeline data directly on their devices.
Alphabet Inc Class CIreland's DPC fined Google €403M for GDPR violations over location-data processing and ordered compliance within six months.
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