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You can as long as you ask for consent.

In which case the detail OP ommited would be that they did not in fact ask for consent

That's exactly what the fine was for - apparently I should have displayed a prompt and asked the user if he allows to see a google maps widget. It's definitely my fault but to my defence I've never seen anything like this on any website in my life.

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