Google Fined €403 Million Over GDPR Violations Tied to Location Data
Ireland's DPC fined Google €403 million for GDPR failures in three location-data features.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission fined Google €403 million for GDPR violations in Web & App Activity, Location History, and Location Accuracy from May 2018 to February 2020, and ordered compliant processing within six months. For the first two features the DPC found breaches of lawful and fair processing, transparency, and storage limitation; for Location Accuracy it found transparency and accountability failures. The fine, the DPC's fourth-largest, is payable only after an Irish court confirms it, and Google may appeal within 28 days. Google said the case concerns historical policies updated since 2019; the inquiry began in February 2020 after November 2018 complaints from BEUC and other consumer groups.
- €403 million is the DPC's fourth-largest GDPR fine.
- Web & App Activity and Location History failed lawfulness, fairness, and transparency.
- Location Accuracy failed transparency and accountability rules.
- Fine is payable only after an Irish court confirms it.
- Inquiry followed 2018 BEUC complaints and opened in February 2020.
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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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