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The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined Google €403 million for its location-tracking activities and ordered the company to comply with the EU's GDPR within 6 months. This is an important decision, close to eight years after a series of complaints consumer organisations from the BEUC network issued against Google.
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The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) welcomes today's judgment of the EU Court of Justice, which upholds the 2022 General Court ruling in the Google Android case. This decision confirms the European Commission’s 2018 finding that Google breached EU competition law by abusing its dominant position to strengthen its market power.