Google Fined €403 Million for GDPR Violations Over Users’ Location Data
Brief
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Google Ireland Limited €403 million after concluding that the technology giant violated the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) while processing users’ location data .
Announced on September 21, 2026, the decision also orders Google to bring the affected processing operations into compliance within six months.
The enforcement action follows an own-volition inquiry opened in February 2020 after the regulator received complaints from several European consumer-rights organizations, including BEUC.
Acting as Google’s lead supervisory authority in the European Union, the DPC examined location-data processing carried out from May 25, 2018, the date the GDPR became applicable, through February 4, 2020.