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Irish data protection watchdog fines Google €403M over GDPR breachesirishtimes.com

Users may have been ‘unaware’ that location data was being used to ‘influence them with ads’

17 points•1vuio0pswjnm7•8 days ago•4 comments•
#data#fines#gdpr#403m#irish#protection#google#watchdog

4 comments

1vuio0pswjnm77 days ago
Let’s put data miners in a spin

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/09/23/lets-p...

RugnirViking8 days ago
is this a comparatively huge or a comparatively tiny amount, when taken with the money made from these activities? does it escalate if no improvements are made?

I ask because I dont know. The devil is in the details with this stuff

wolvoleo8 days ago
Knowing Ireland and its dependency on big tech this is the watered-down version.

Many issues aren't even followed up by their privacy legislator at all. US big tech companies choose Ireland for tax avoidance and permissive privacy regulators and if that were to change Ireland would use a massive amount of jobs and thus tax revenue.

rsynnott7 days ago
It's quite big, as a GDPR fine, and by far the biggest that Google has ever had (https://legit.eu/resources/blog/5-biggest-gdpr-fines-so-far-...). But it's quite small relative to the largest fine available to the regulator; that would be 4% of Google's global turnover, or 16 billion dollars.

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