Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL)'s Google has been hit with another major European regulatory penalty, this time over how it historically processed users' location data. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), the lead EU privacy regulator for many of the largest U.S. technology companies, fined Google €403 million ($463 million) after finding that the company infringed the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). DON'T MISS: Waymo is Taking Robotaxis to Tokyo. Can Alphabet Get Ahead of Uber in Japan? The investigation covered Google's processing of location data between 2018 and 2020 through three features: Web & App Activity, Location History, and Location Accuracy.
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