ottime notizie. vietare google e monetizzare le bellissime spiagge, e mangiare pasta autentica.
I don’t think you’re really Italian ahahah
Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics
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Re: Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics
#222Re: Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics
#223i’d support any legislation that booted google, fb, ms, adobe, salesforce, and a whole host of other surveillance tech companies from any and all levels of government. it’s literally as important as the separation of church and state. in fact, i’d love to see a constitutional amendment explicitly separating corporate interests from governmental ones, in all facets of civic life (e.g., campaign finance).
FWIW I think the "church and state" analogy is genius, it totally resonated with me. I'm going to steal that!
Re: Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics
#224This is why we built Scale8.com !
An open-source and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics & Google Tag Manager :)
GA is simply not compliant...
Re: Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics
#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pragmatically, to what extent do you believe the European laws have protected Europeans above and beyond how American laws have protected Americans? Basically, what class of badness are Americans subjected to due to behind-the-times data protection laws, that Europeans are protected from?
It's possible for a company, which is seemingly providing you a service since you visited the site, to make money off a targeted ad in exchange for free video streaming/content/entertainment. The whole thing has always seemed overblown to me. Websites make much more money off targeted ads, allowing them to do things like allow anyone to upload a video of any length and quality for free. And view other videos people u…
Give me the option to pay more if it lets me get more privacy. Otherwise I keep using fake accounts, VPN, antifingerprinting methods, ad blockers, etc.
Re: Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics
#226Another decision in a long stream that will make it much harder for EU start-ups companies to catch up to American ones. With absolutely no improvements to actual EU citizen well being.
Isn't this an opportunity for EU startups? By choosing to enforce the law on US companies that EU companies are already generally very compliant with, surely the EU has levelled the playing field for EU companies?
Re: Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics
#227There is really no reason to use Google Analytics anymore. There are many great alternatives now, mine is PanelBear.com. Other people love Fathom and Plausible. It’s great to see some unbundling happen.
The reason we built Scale8.com - Time to replace Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager :)
Re: Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics
#228Good. US citizens should be, at least, disappointed that their government is so bad at protecting their privacy, that US law is so far behind the times. To those companies and people who find these EU decisions baffling or inconvenient: tough. If you had had respect for your users this would not be an issue. You would already not be spying on them. To website visitors: if you see a cookie banner, the site is asking p…
Pragmatically, to what extent do you believe the European laws have protected Europeans above and beyond how American laws have protected Americans? Basically, what class of badness are Americans subjected to due to behind-the-times data protection laws, that Europeans are protected from?
You won't get a good answer to this because there isn't one. These no realistic, practical harm to people that this EU law is preventing.
Re: Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics
#229i’d support any legislation that booted google, fb, ms, adobe, salesforce, and a whole host of other surveillance tech companies from any and all levels of government. it’s literally as important as the separation of church and state. in fact, i’d love to see a constitutional amendment explicitly separating corporate interests from governmental ones, in all facets of civic life (e.g., campaign finance).
This is just naive. Government offices/agencies are so tightly coupled with packages like office 365 that forcefully separating them would require home built solutions which would always be terrible, less secure, and more expensive to the tax payer. There’s a lot of good these products can provide, granted they are properly audited and have high security requirements.
Most developed countries have several offices/agencies that already run 'home built' solutions, they just don't get talked about much.
Re: Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics
#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is just naive. Government offices/agencies are so tightly coupled with packages like office 365 that forcefully separating them would require home built solutions which would always be terrible, less secure, and more expensive to the tax payer. There’s a lot of good these products can provide, granted they are properly audited and have high security requirements.
I didn’t read it as government can’t use commercial products. Just that the corps couldn’t influence politics. But I’m not the OP, so I can’t speak to what was intended.
More around the storing of data. This is why Scale8.com is on EU servers...