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Ireland’s privacy watchdog today fined Google LLC €403 million, or about $462 million, for collecting users’ location data in breach of GDPR.
Summary
The tracking was done by three Google features: Web & App Activity, Timeline and GLA. Web & App Activity is a Google account setting that collects user data when it’s enabled.
This summary is a partial excerpt — the source's own feed cuts off here. Read the full story at Siliconangle for the rest.
KazaSec's take
Incidents like this rarely start with the headline event itself — they usually trace back to an exposed remote-access endpoint, an unpatched perimeter system, or a credential phished weeks earlier. The organizations that recover fastest are the ones that tested their defenses and their incident response plan before they needed them.
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