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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Lisa O’Carroll

Google fined more than €400m by Irish regulator over its use of location data

A street sign saying Google, next to a traffic light showing red, near the headquarters in Mountain View, California
The DPC found that Google users could have been unaware of how their data was being used. Photograph: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images

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 to be constantly tracked on their mobile phones.

The fine, imposed by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), comes after complaints from multiple European consumer organisations that Google was following every step users took.

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