Google Fined €403 Million Over GDPR Violations Tied to Location Data

Google Fined €403 Million Over GDPR Violations Tied to Location Data Swati KhandelwalSep 21, 2026Data Privacy / Regulatory Compliance Google has been fined €403 million for breaking the EU's data protection law, the GDPR, in the way three of its features handled people's location data from May 2018 to February 2020. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), Google's 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. The three features are Web & App Activity, Location History and Location Accuracy. Web & App Activity is a Google account setting…