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Google Fined $463 Million for EU Location Data Violations

Google Fined $463 Million for EU Location Data Violations

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September 22nd, 2026

Google Fined $463 Million for EU Location Data Violations

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On Monday, the EU's data privacy watchdog announced that Google had been fined โ‚ฌ403 million ($463 million) on suspicion of violating the European Union's stringent data protection rules by mishandling users' location data.

EU์˜ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด ๊ฐ๋…๊ธฐ๊ตฌ๋Š” ์›”์š”์ผ, ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์ด ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ์œ„์น˜ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ถ€์ ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์œ ๋Ÿฝ์—ฐํ•ฉ(EU)์˜ ์—„๊ฒฉํ•œ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด ๋ณดํ˜ธ ๊ทœ์ •์„ ์œ„๋ฐ˜ํ•œ ํ˜์˜๋กœ 4์–ต 300๋งŒ ์œ ๋กœ(4์–ต 6,300๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ)์˜ ๋ฒŒ๊ธˆ์„ ๋ถ€๊ณผ๋ฐ›์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

The Irish Data Protection Commission announced that its investigation had found that Google had failed to process location data lawfully or fairly in users' Web & App Activity and Location History.

์•„์ผ๋žœ๋“œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๋ณดํ˜ธ ์œ„์›ํšŒ๋Š” ์กฐ์‚ฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์ด ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์˜ ์›น ๋ฐ ์•ฑ ํ™œ๋™(Web & App Activity)๊ณผ ์œ„์น˜ ๊ธฐ๋ก(Location History)์—์„œ ์œ„์น˜ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ฒ•ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ณต์ •ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

Web & App Activity is a Google setting that tracks browsing and search history, while Location History is a service that maps out the places a user has visited with their mobile phone.

์›น ๋ฐ ์•ฑ ํ™œ๋™์€ ๋ธŒ๋ผ์šฐ์ง• ๋ฐ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ๊ธฐ๋ก์„ ์ถ”์ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ตฌ๊ธ€ ์„ค์ •์ด๋ฉฐ, ์œ„์น˜ ๊ธฐ๋ก์€ ๋ชจ๋ฐ”์ผ ํฐ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ–ˆ๋˜ ์žฅ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ง€๋„์— ํ‘œ์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋‹ค.

The regulatory authority also pointed out that Google failed to ensure lawfulness, fairness, and transparency in its processing of personal data through the Location Accuracy feature of the Android mobile operating system.

๊ทœ์ œ ๋‹น๊ตญ์€ ๋˜ํ•œ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์ด ์•ˆ๋“œ๋กœ์ด๋“œ ๋ชจ๋ฐ”์ผ ์šด์˜์ฒด์ œ์˜ ์œ„์น˜ ์ •ํ™•๋„(Location Accuracy) ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์—์„œ ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ์ ๋ฒ•์„ฑ, ๊ณต์ •์„ฑ, ํˆฌ๋ช…์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ”์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Ireland is the lead authority for regulating Google within the 27-nation EU, given that the American tech giant's European headquarters is located in Dublin.

์•„์ผ๋žœ๋“œ๋Š” ์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ๋ณธ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋”๋ธ”๋ฆฐ์— ์ž๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์—์„œ, 27๊ฐœ๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋œ EU ๋‚ด์—์„œ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์„ ๊ทœ์ œํ•˜๋Š” ์ฃผ๊ด€ ๋‹น๊ตญ์ด๋‹ค.

This investigation, which began six years ago, examined how Google applied the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the bloc's data protection rules that took effect in 2018, between 2018 and February 2020.

6๋…„ ์ „ ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ ์ด ์กฐ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์ด 2018๋…„ ๋ฐœํšจ๋œ EU ๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด ๋ณดํ˜ธ ๊ทœ์ •์ธ ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฒ•(GDPR)์„ 2018๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 2020๋…„ 2์›”๊นŒ์ง€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ ์šฉํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์กฐ์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

In a statement, Google said, "This case concerns outdated policies that have since been updated," adding, "Since 2019, we have significantly improved our practices and introduced powerful tools that make managing location data easier."

๊ตฌ๊ธ€์€ ์„ฑ๋ช…์—์„œ "์ด ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์€ ์ดํ›„ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋œ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ์ •์ฑ…์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ"์ด๋ผ๋ฉฐ "2019๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ด€ํ–‰์„ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ์ „์‹œ์ผฐ๊ณ  ์œ„์น˜ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ„ํŽธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๋„๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ถœ์‹œํ–ˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

Regulators stated that location data is a type of personal data collected by Google, and that an individual's location can be inferred from it.

๊ทœ์ œ ๋‹น๊ตญ์€ ์œ„์น˜ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์ด ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์˜ ์ผ์ข…์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ์œ„์น˜๋ฅผ ์ถ”๋ก ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

Vice Chair Graham Doyle said, "Location data can bring both benefits and harms to individuals," adding, "While it can greatly enhance the usefulness of online services, it can also reveal considerable information about a person, including inherently private details."

๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด์—„ ๋„์ผ ๋ถ€์œ„์›์žฅ์€ "์œ„์น˜ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋Š” ๊ฐœ์ธ์—๊ฒŒ ์ด์ต๊ณผ ํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค"๋ฉฐ "์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์„œ๋น„์Šค์˜ ์œ ์šฉ์„ฑ์„ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ณธ์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์ ์ธ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•ด ๊ฐœ์ธ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

This ranks as the fourth-largest EU data protection fine ever imposed by the Irish regulator.

์ด๋Š” ์•„์ผ๋žœ๋“œ ๊ฐ๋…๊ธฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€๊ณผํ•œ EU ๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด ๋ณดํ˜ธ ๋ฒŒ๊ธˆ ์ค‘ ๋„ค ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋กœ ํฐ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•œ๋‹ค.

The authority has previously imposed larger fines on TikTok and Meta, including a precedent in which it fined Meta 1.2 billion euros.

์ด ๊ธฐ๊ตฌ๋Š” ์ด์ „์— ํ‹ฑํ†ก๊ณผ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€์— ๋” ํฐ ๋ฒŒ๊ธˆ์„ ๋ถ€๊ณผํ•œ ๋ฐ” ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฉ”ํƒ€์—๋Š” 12์–ต ์œ ๋กœ์˜ ๋ฒŒ๊ธˆ์„ ๋ถ€๊ณผํ•œ ์ „๋ก€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

The regulatory authority stated that three privacy-related investigations involving Google are still ongoing.

๊ทœ์ œ ๋‹น๊ตญ์€ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€๊ณผ ์—ฐ๊ด€๋œ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด ๋ณดํ˜ธ ๊ด€๋ จ ์กฐ์‚ฌ ์„ธ ๊ฑด์ด ์•„์ง๋„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ˜•์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ „ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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