Google Fined €403 Million Over Location Data Practices
Ireland's DPC fined Google 403 million euros for GDPR violations involving location data.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission fined Google 403 million euros for GDPR violations involving location data processed from 25 May 2018 to 4 February 2020. The inquiry, opened in February 2020 after complaints including from BEUC, examined Web & App Activity, Location History, and Android's Location Accuracy feature. Commissioners found failures of lawfulness, fairness, and transparency, plus retention longer than allowed, and said users may not have known location data was used for ads and profiling. Google was given six months to comply. The penalty is the DPC's fourth-largest EU privacy fine.
- Ireland's DPC fined Google 403 million euros over location-data GDPR failures.
- The inquiry covered Web & App Activity, Location History, and Location Accuracy.
- Findings cited unlawful processing, poor transparency, and excessive retention.
- Google has six months to bring its processing into compliance.
- The fine is the Irish regulator's fourth-largest EU privacy penalty.
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4 min read at securityaffairs.comIreland’s DPC fined Google €403 million over GDPR violations involving location data, transparency, retention and user control. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) just fined Google €403 million, and the case behind it goes back six years, to a set of complaints that never really went away. The DPC launched the investigation in February 2020 after […]
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