Google fined $462 million after regulators uncover problems with a familiar feature

The hits keep coming for Google. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission announced on Monday that it has fined Google €403 million, or about $462 million, over the tech giant’s processing of location data. The penalty, which is among the largest ever imposed by the Irish watchdog authority, follows an investigation that began in early 2020 and ultimately found that the Mountain View, California-based company infringed on European Union privacy rules known as the General Data Protection Regulatio...