{"id":1037531,"date":"2026-09-22T08:40:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037531"},"modified":"2026-09-22T08:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:15:28","slug":"google-fined-463-million-for-breaching-eu-rule-on-location-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/22\/google-fined-463-million-for-breaching-eu-rule-on-location-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Google fined $463 million for breaching EU rule on location data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) for breaching the European Union&#8217;s strict privacy rules because it mishandled users&#8217; location data, the bloc&#8217;s data privacy watchdog said Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Ireland&#8217;s Data Protection Commission said its investigation found Google did not lawfully or fairly process location data in users&#8217; Web &amp; App Activity, a Google setting that tracks browsing and search history, and in their Location History, a service that maps places they&#8217;ve been with their mobile phones. <\/p>\n<p>Regulators also found the company failed to be lawful, fair and transparent when it processed personal data in its Location Accuracy feature in the Android mobile operating system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) for breaching the European Union&#8217;s strict privacy rules because it mishandled users&#8217; location data, the bloc&#8217;s data privacy watchdog said Monday. Ireland&#8217;s Data Protection Commission said its investigation found Google did not lawfully or fairly process location data in users&#8217; Web &amp; App Activity, a Google setting that tracks browsing and search history, and in their Location History, a service that maps places they&#8217;ve been with their mobile phones. Regulators also found the company failed to be lawful, fair and transparent when it processed personal data in its Location Accuracy feature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037558,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037531\/revisions\/1037558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}