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Google fined €403m over unlawful location-data processing
September 21, 2026 at 03:00 PM
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3 reports · 1 in Arabic, 2 in English · over 6 hours
AJAl Jazeera Arabic
الاتحاد الأوروبي يغرّم غوغل أكثر من 400 مليون دولار لانتهاك قواعد الخصوصية
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BNBBC News
Google hit with €403m fine by Irish data watchdog over GDPR violations
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TGThe Guardian
Google fined more than €400m by Irish regulator over its use of location data
(opens the publisher’s site)Ireland's Data Protection Commission has fined Google €403m for unlawfully processing users' location data between 2018 and 2020.
- The DPC ordered Google to bring its data processing into compliance with GDPR within six months.
- The inquiry, launched six years ago after complaints from European consumer organisations, examined three location-data features in effect from May 2018 to February 2020.
- Deputy commissioner Graham Doyle said individuals could have been unaware their location was being used to influence them with ads.
- Google said the case concerns historical policies that have since been updated, launching data-management tools from 2019 onwards.