Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
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Re: Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
#2The article seems to suggest that it's declared illegal in Austria. Does this somehow apply to the whole EU then?
Re: Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
#3The article seems to suggest that it's declared illegal in Austria. Does this somehow apply to the whole EU then?
Privacy law in the EU is harmonized.
Re: Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
#4The article seems to suggest that it's declared illegal in Austria. Does this somehow apply to the whole EU then?
The legislation that is relevant here is GDPR which is EU wide (each country has it's own implementation but they should be overall similar).
In the article it points out that there are similar suits across the EU by the same organization, so it's not too unlikely that there will be similar reults in some or all of the cases.
Re: Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
#5The article seems to suggest that it's declared illegal in Austria. Does this somehow apply to the whole EU then?
> Austrian Data Protection Authority strikes the same chord as the European court when declaring Privacy Shield as invalid: It has decided that the use of Google Analytics violates the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
It seems Google was sued in Austria and they have found it to violate the GDPR so yes, it applies to the whole EU.
Re: Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
#6The article seems to suggest that it's declared illegal in Austria. Does this somehow apply to the whole EU then?
such individual court decisions are usually a precursor to what will be implemented EU-wide
Re: Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
#7To be clear, the transfer of EU citizen's data to the US was deemed against the GDPR. This decision does not mean that Google Analytics itself is illegal.
Re: Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
#8The CLOUD Act itself is the issue. Don't use MS Office 365 or any other US based service even if their servers are in Europe as they can not guarantee that your data is not accessible by the US.
Amazon and Cloudflare are all great service but your data is under US jurisdiction.
Re: Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
#9NOYB's article itself discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29918496
Re: Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
#10I really hope this will have consequences that shake up ad tech, but the cynic in me says: They're just going to add another disclaimer in their cookie banner and exactly nothing will happen.