Ireland's Data Protection Commission Fines Google €403 Million Over Location Data Privacy Violations

The Ireland Data Protection Commission (DPC) has imposed a fine of €403 million ($463 million) on Google for a number of violations of the GDPR concerning the processing of users' location data, the DPC said. The investigation was initiated by the DPC in February 2020 following complaints from consumer rights organizations and looked at three Google features that were in operation during the GDPR period, which ran from May 25, 2018, to February 4, 2020. The DPC concluded that Google had not fulf