Spanish DPA fines Google $10.6M for GDPR violations
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Kyle Brasseur2022-05-19T20:07:00
Spain’s data protection authority has issued a record fine of €10 million (U.S. $10.6 million) against Google for two “serious infractions” of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation regarding its sharing information with U.S. legal database Lumen.
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