Google hit with €403 million GDPR fine over location tracking
Ireland’s DPC fined Google €403 million over unlawful processing of users’ location data.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission fined Google €403 million, about $463 million, over location-data processing and ordered compliance within six months. The inquiry covered 25 May 2018 to 4 February 2020 and followed complaints from European consumer groups including BEUC. The DPC found GDPR violations involving lawfulness, fairness, transparency, accountability, and excessive retention across Web & App Activity, Location History, and Location Accuracy. The full decision is still to be published.
- Ireland’s DPC fined Google €403 million, about $463 million.
- The inquiry covered location processing from May 2018 to February 2020.
- Findings cited unlawful, unfair, and insufficiently transparent processing and retention.
- Google must bring the processing into compliance within six months.
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Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Google €403 million (about $463 million) over its processing of users’ location data and ordered the company to bring that processing into compliance within six months. The inquiry examined Google’s practices from May 25, 2018, to February 4, 2020.
By Anamarija Pogorelec · helpnetsecurity.com
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