DPC Slaps Google With €403m Fine as Ireland's Regulatory Tally Crosses €4.4bn

The Irish Data Protection Commission has hit Google with a €403 million fine for illegally processing users' location data — the fourth-largest GDPR penalty ever issued by the Dublin-based regulator. The DPC's six-year investigation found that Google allowed users' locations to be tracked and used for ad targeting and interest profiling without adequate transparency or lawful basis between May 2018 and February 2020, covering Google Search, Google Maps, and Android location...