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Google fined $463 million for violating EU location data regulations

Google fined $463 million for violating EU location data regulations

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September 22nd, 2026

Google fined $463 million for violating EU location data regulations

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The European Union's data privacy watchdog announced on Monday that Google had been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) on suspicion of violating the EU's stringent data protection regulations by improperly handling user location data.

์œ ๋Ÿฝ์—ฐํ•ฉ(EU)์˜ ๋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 EU์˜ ์—„๊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 not processed location data pertaining to users' Web & App Activity and Location History lawfully or fairly.

์•„์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)์— ๊ด€ํ•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 displays on a map the places one has visited with a 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€๋„์ƒ์— ํ‘œ์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋‹ค.

The regulatory authority further pointed out that, in processing personal data in connection with the Location Accuracy feature of the Android mobile operating system, Google failed to satisfy the requirements of lawfulness, fairness, and transparency.

๊ทœ์ œ ๋‹น๊ตญ์€ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์ด ์•ˆ๋“œ๋กœ์ด๋“œ ๋ชจ๋ฐ”์ผ ์šด์˜์ฒด์ œ์˜ ์œ„์น˜ ์ •ํ™•๋„(Location Accuracy) ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ์ ๋ฒ•์„ฑยท๊ณต์ •์„ฑยทํˆฌ๋ช…์„ฑ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์š”๊ฑด์„ ์ถฉ์กฑํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

By virtue of the fact that the American technology giant's European headquarters is situated in Dublin, Ireland occupies the position of the regulatory authority overseeing Google within the EU, which comprises 27 member states.

์•„์ผ๋žœ๋“œ๋Š” ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ๋ณธ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋”๋ธ”๋ฆฐ์— ์†Œ์žฌํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค๋กœ ์ธํ•ด, 27๊ฐœ ํšŒ์›๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋œ EU ์—ญ๋‚ด์—์„œ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์„ ๊ด€์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ๊ทœ์ œ ๋‹น๊ตญ์˜ ์ง€์œ„๋ฅผ ์ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

This investigation, launched six years ago, sought to establish how Google had applied the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the EU's data protection framework that entered into force in 2018, over the period from 2018 to February 2020.

6๋…„ ์ „ ์ฐฉ์ˆ˜๋œ ๋ณธ ์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•ด ์™”๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ๊ทœ๋ช…ํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

In a statement, Google said, "The matter concerns past policies that have since been revised," adding, "Since 2019, we have made considerable progress in our practices and have launched powerful tools that make it easier to manage location data."

๊ตฌ๊ธ€์€ ์„ฑ๋ช…์„ ํ†ตํ•ด "ํ•ด๋‹น ์‚ฌ์•ˆ์€ ์ดํ›„ ๊ฐœ์ •๋œ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ์ •์ฑ…์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ"์ด๋ผ๋ฉฐ "2019๋…„ ์ด๋ž˜๋กœ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ด€ํ–‰์„ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์ง„์ „์‹œ์ผœ ์™”์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์œ„์น˜ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์šฉ์ดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๋„๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ถœ์‹œํ•œ ๋ฐ” ์žˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

Regulatory authorities stated that location data constitutes a category of personal data collected by Google, and that an individual's whereabouts can be inferred from it.

๊ทœ์ œ ๋‹น๊ตญ์€ ์œ„์น˜ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์ด ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์˜ ํ•œ ๋ฒ”์ฃผ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ์œ„์น˜๋ฅผ ์ถ”๋ก ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

Vice Chair Graham Doyle stated, "Location data can bring both benefits and harms to individuals," adding that "while it can significantly enhance the usefulness of online services, it also has the potential to expose a considerable amount of information about individuals, including inherently private information."

๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด์—„ ๋„์ผ ๋ถ€์œ„์›์žฅ์€ "์œ„์น˜ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋Š” ๊ฐœ์ธ์—๊ฒŒ ์ด์ต๊ณผ ํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค"๋ฉฐ "์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์„œ๋น„์Šค์˜ ์œ ์šฉ์„ฑ์„ ํ˜„์ €ํžˆ ์ œ๊ณ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ๋ณธ์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์ ์ธ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ๊ฐœ์ธ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋…ธ์ถœ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์†Œ์ง€๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ์–ธ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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

์ด๋Š” ์•„์ผ๋žœ๋“œ ๊ฐ๋…๊ธฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€๊ณผํ•œ EU ๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด ๋ณดํ˜ธ ๊ด€๋ จ ๋ฒŒ๊ธˆ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ๋„ค ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋กœ ๋ง‰๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•œ๋‹ค.

The authority has previously imposed even heftier fines on TikTok and Meta, having levied a penalty of โ‚ฌ1.2 billion against Meta.

๋™ ๊ธฐ๊ตฌ๋Š” ์•ž์„œ ํ‹ฑํ†ก๊ณผ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€์— ์ด๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๊ฑฐ์•ก์˜ ๋ฒŒ๊ธˆ์„ ๋ถ€๊ณผํ•œ ์ „๋ก€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฉ”ํƒ€์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ 12์–ต ์œ ๋กœ์— ๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฒŒ๊ธˆ์„ ๋ถ€๊ณผํ•œ ๋ฐ” ์žˆ๋‹ค.

The regulatory authority announced that three other data protection investigations involving Google remain ongoing at present.

๊ทœ์ œ ๋‹น๊ตญ์€ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€๊ณผ ์—ฐ๊ด€๋œ ์—ฌํƒ€ ์„ธ ๊ฑด์˜ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด ๋ณดํ˜ธ ๊ด€๋ จ ์กฐ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ํ˜„์žฌ์—๋„ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ˜•์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ณตํ‘œํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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