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Ireland's Data Protection Commission said in a statement on Monday that it fined Alphabet's Google 403 million euros (about $463 million) because Google violated relevant regulations involving how it processed location data in online and app activities and location records. Several European consumer rights groups had previously filed complaints about this. Graham Doyle, deputy commissioner of the Irish Data Protection Commission, said: "Due to Google's violations in this area, users may not know that their location data is being used, for example, to influence them through advertising or to infer their interests, which also means users may have lost control over their own personal data." This is the fourth-largest fine issued by the regulator since the General Data Protection Regulation took effect. In 2023, the regulator fined Facebook parent Meta Platforms 1.2 billion euros for transferring EU personal data to the United States.