Google fined €400 million by EU regulator over covert location tracking for ads
___Patrice___ · x · 2026-09-21
Europe's data regulator fined Google €400 million for tracking users' locations without their knowledge and using that location data to target ads for nearly two years. The original poster framed it sarcastically as 'the EU's best business model: let foreign companies build, then regulate and fine them into oblivion.'
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