The DPC is the main European data control body for a number of large US hi tech companies based in Ireland under the EU’s One Stop Shop regime of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). These rules impose fines for violations of up to 4% of a company’s global revenue or 20 million euros ($ 22 million), whichever is higher.
The DPC said it had “received a number of complaints from various consumer organizations across the EU, in which concerns have been raised about the processing of location data by Google.” In May he opened his first investigation of Google by Alphabet Inc. on the processing of personal data for advertising purposes.
The DPC has over 20 large-scale investigations into multinational technology firms, including Twitter, LinkedIn, Apple and Facebook.
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