Ireland’s data watchdog has fined Google €403M over location data
THE SO WHAT
A €403M fine for location data handling is another proof point that regulators will price opaque consent flows as a real liability, not a rounding error. If your product quietly repurposes behavioral data, assume the enforcement bar is rising and bake auditability into your telemetry stack now.
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