It is the fourth-highest fine imposed by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), which oversees Google’s operations at the European level, whose European headquarters is in Dublin.

The US tech giant Google was fined on Monday €403 million ($462 million) by the Irish data protection regulator, acting on behalf of the European Union (EU).

This organization accused Google of violating European rules on the use of users' geolocation data between May 2018 and February 2020.

According to the deputy commissioner of the DPC, Graham Doyle, «as a consequence of Google’s failures (…) people may not have been aware that their location was being used, for example, to influence them through ads or to infer their interests.»

Google responded, assuring that «the case focuses on historical policies that have since been updated».

«Since 2019, we have evolved considerably our practices and we have put in place robust tools that facilitate the management of location data,» the company said in a statement.

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