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Google is fined more than €400m by Irish regulator over its use of location data
What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a business & markets story. The Guardian UK is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 21 Sept 2026, 10:57 UTC. 2 material updates are listed in the timeline. The headline in use is “Google is fined more than €400m by Irish regulator over its use of location data”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Watchdog says users may have been unaware their information was used to target adverts or infer their interests Google has been fined more than €400m (£345m) over the way it processed users’ location data, following claims that the tech giant had manipulated users into agreeing to be constantly tracked on…
Story timeline
Reports grouped into this story, earliest first. Exact repeats from the same outlet are collapsed.
- First reported by The Guardian World
Google is fined more than €400m by Irish regulator over its use of location data
- Picked up by The Guardian UK
Google fined more than €400m by Irish regulator over its use of location data
Reported by 1 outlet
- The Guardian