{"id":1037609,"date":"2026-09-22T09:24:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037609"},"modified":"2026-09-22T09:47:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:17:41","slug":"eu-fines-google-403-million-euros-for-location-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/22\/eu-fines-google-403-million-euros-for-location-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"EU fines Google 403 million euros for location data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBLIN: Ireland&#8217;s data protection watchdog, acting on behalf of the European Union, said Monday it had fined Google 403 million euros (USD 462 million) for improperly using users&#8217; location data, eight years after consumer groups complained. <\/p>\n<p>The fine is the fourth largest imposed by the Data Protection Commission, the regulator said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>The DPC is responsible for overseeing Google at the European level because, like most tech giants, the company has its European headquarters in Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBLIN: Ireland&#8217;s data protection watchdog, acting on behalf of the European Union, said Monday it had fined Google 403 million euros (USD 462 million) for improperly using users&#8217; location data, eight years after consumer groups complained. The fine is the fourth largest imposed by the Data Protection Commission, the regulator said in a statement. The DPC is responsible for overseeing Google at the European level because, like most tech giants, the company has its European headquarters in Ireland.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037609","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=1037609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037610,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037609\/revisions\/1037610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}