Google hit with €403 million GDPR fine over location tracking

Reported by Help Net Security (Anamarija Pogorelec)

Summary by Cyber Security News21 Sep 2026, 14:23 CEST

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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.

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