Google fined €403 million over location data handling
Google has been fined €403 million over its handling of location data. The fine joins Meta's €1.2 billion data transfer fine and Instagram's €405 million children's data fine in the list of European penalties.
Who is affected and how
- compliance specialist
- Consent and transparency practices for location data processing must be reviewed.
- corporate lawyer
- Data protection fine risk should also be built into contractual and procurement risk analyses for large platforms.
Sources
- Google Fined €403M Over Location Data Privacy [2026]tech-insider.org · Sep 21, 2026
- Google fined more than €400m by Irish regulator over its use of location data | Google | The Guardiantheguardian.com · Sep 21, 2026
- Google fined $463 million over location data trackinginvezz.com · Sep 21, 2026
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