Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority
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Re: Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority
#2Just two weeks after Austria, another EU country has deemed current Google Analytics implementation illegal in EU.
From the article: > "It's interesting to see that the different European Data Protection Authorities all come to the same conclusion: the use of Google Analytics is illegal. There is a European task force and we assume that this action is coordinated and other authorities will decide similarily."
I am really looking forward to seeing how this will play out in the rest of the EU, and which practical consequences it will have.
And, as usual, fellow EU citizens, support NOYB work, if you care about data protection: https://noyb.eu/en/support-us
Re: Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority
#3The onus is on Google to suspend or anonymize Analytics. Individual Website managers can't be expected to discriminate based on geographical origin, as the document seems to imply.
Re: Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority
#4Re: Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority
#5The onus is on Google to suspend or anonymize Analytics. Individual Website managers can't be expected to discriminate based on geographical origin, as the document seems to imply.
If Google does not do so or fails to do so adequately, then the onus is on website owners to stop using a service which does not allow them to meet their data protection obligations. The data controller can't offload all responsibility to the data processor, in GDPR terms.
Re: Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority
#6As a side note: Secret services have been using GA to identify and track targets for years
Re: Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority
#7The onus is on Google to suspend or anonymize Analytics. Individual Website managers can't be expected to discriminate based on geographical origin, as the document seems to imply.
>Individual Website managers
It's their responsibility to include or not google analytics, though.
Re: Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority
#8I don't like Google but seriously this whole GDPR thing is getting out of hand.
Anyone who's concerned about their data being collected can just block Google-or-like-related domains. Rest is just making life of web developers/admins/tech company owners harder.
Especially with these European intentions I frankly believe this is more of a political war against US and US-based companies. (No, I'm not from US as well)
Re: Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority
#9The onus is on Google to suspend or anonymize Analytics. Individual Website managers can't be expected to discriminate based on geographical origin, as the document seems to imply.
It's worth noting that GA4 does this already. GA3 (AKA Universal Analytics) requires owners to set the anonymize_ip flag though. I agree that Google should have retroactively changed this policy for GA3 accounts, even if it would cause some breakage.
Re: Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority
#10I don't like Google but seriously this whole GDPR thing is getting out of hand. Anyone who's concerned about their data being collected can just block Google-or-like-related domains. Rest is just making life of web developers/admins/tech company owners harder. Especially with these European intentions I frankly believe this is more of a political war against US and US-based companies. (No, I'm not from US as well)
> Anyone who's concerned about their data being collected can just block Google-or-like-related domains.
What percentage of the general population do you estimate a) will know enough to want to do this and b) will know how to do it?