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Google Fined $463 Million for Breaching EU Rule on Location Data

Google has been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) for breaching the European Union's strict privacy rules because it mishandled users' location data, the bloc's data privacy watchdog said Monday.

  • Google fined $463 million by EU for violating privacy rules on location data.
  • Ireland’s Data Protection Commission led investigation into Google’s handling of location data.

The compliance paradox: More checks, more fraud

The teller does not sound accusatory. The tone is worse than that. It is procedural. A man in his thirties slides his phone across the counter and points to the screen, a transfer that never arrived…

The Joy of Learning the Basics Again

I’ve been revisiting JavaScript recently. Not because I’ve never used it before, but because I realised there were a lot of things I could recognise when I saw them in code without feeling fully…

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