{"id":1037652,"date":"2026-09-22T10:14:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037652"},"modified":"2026-09-22T10:44:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T05:14:27","slug":"google-hit-with-usd-463-million-fine-for-eu-location-data-rule-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/22\/google-hit-with-usd-463-million-fine-for-eu-location-data-rule-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Google hit with USD 463 million fine for EU location data rule breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has been fined 403 million euros (USD 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has been fined 403 million euros (USD 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.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037652","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=1037652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037697,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037652\/revisions\/1037697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}