{"id":244323,"date":"2026-09-21T21:28:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/google-fined-e403-million-over-gdpr-violations-tied-to-location-data"},"modified":"2026-09-21T21:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:28:29","slug":"google-fined-e403-million-over-gdpr-violations-tied-to-location-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/google-fined-e403-million-over-gdpr-violations-tied-to-location-data","title":{"rendered":"Google Fined \u20ac403 Million Over GDPR Violations Tied to Location Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-fined-e403-million-over-gdpr-violations-tied-to-location-data.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataprotection.ie\/en\/news-media\/latest-news\/data-protection-commission-fines-google-eu403-million-following-inquiry-googles-processing-location\" target=\"_blank\">fined \u20ac403 million<\/a> for breaking the EU\u2019s data protection law, the GDPR, in the way three of its features handled people\u2019s location data from May 2018 to February 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland\u2019s Data Protection Commission (DPC), Google\u2019s lead regulator in the EU, also ordered the company to make its processing comply with the law within 6 months. The DPC has not said publicly which processing the order covers, and it says its full decision will be published later.<\/p>\n<p>The three features are Web &amp; App Activity, Location History and Location Accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has been fined \u20ac403 million for breaking the EU\u2019s data protection law, the GDPR, in the way three of its features handled people\u2019s location data from May 2018 to February 2020. Ireland\u2019s Data Protection Commission (DPC), Google\u2019s lead regulator in the EU, also ordered the company to make its processing comply with the law [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}