Irish data protection watchdog fines Google €403m over GDPR breaches

Google has been fined 403 million euros for breaching the EU's privacy rules by mishandling users' location data

Users could have been unaware that their data was being used for ads, DPC deputy commissioner said.

Watchdog says users may have been unaware their information was used to target adverts or infer their interests Google has been fined more than €400m (£345m) over the way it processed users’ location data, following claims that the tech giant had manipulated users into agreeing…

Users may have been ‘unaware’ that location data was being used to ‘influence them with ads’

Follows investigation into how the company processed location data