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  "id": 8976405,
  "title": "Google Fined €403 Million Over GDPR Violations Tied to Location Data",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/google-fined-403-million-over-gdpr-violations-tied-to-location-data",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-21T16:57:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/google-fined-403-million-over-gdpr.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Google has been fined €403 million for breaking the EU's data protection law, the GDPR, in the way three of its features handled people's location data from May 2018 to February 2020. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), Google's lead regulator in the EU, also ordered the company to make its processing comply with the law within 6 months. The DPC has not said publicly which",
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      {
        "outlet": "Fortune",
        "title": "Google fined €403 million by EU over location data privacy violations",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/google-fined-403-million-by-eu-over-location-data-privacy-violations",
        "published": "2026-09-21T15:28:03.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Record",
        "title": "EU data regulator fines Google more than $460 million for location data violations",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/eu-data-regulator-fines-google-more-than-460-million-for-location",
        "published": "2026-09-21T19:15:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "SiliconANGLE",
        "title": "Google fined $462M in Ireland over location data collection practices",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/google-fined-462m-in-ireland-over-location-data-collection-practices",
        "published": "2026-09-21T20:04:50.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}