Archive · Business Recorder
Irish privacy regulator fines Google €403 million over location data processing
DUBLIN: The lead EU data privacy regulator for most of the biggest internet companies fined Alphabet’s Google search engine €403 million ($463 million) after an inquiry into its processing of location data, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said on Monday. The Irish watchdog found that Google infringed European Union privacy rules known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) through three of its specific features – ‘Web & App Activity’, ‘Location History’ and ‘Location Accuracy’ — from 2018 to 2020. It was the fourth largest fine of the more than €4 billion in total levied by ...
ZAZTEK archives the headline, summary and publication date so the story stays findable. The full article remains the publisher's. Read it at Business Recorder →