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The 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 doesn't offer the ability then it is up to the customer to not use GA until Google complies. I hate this ruling, but implying it's just Google's job to do this and everyone else should just do nothing is crazy.
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Nobody is going to get in “legal hot water” on account of Google Fonts or Google Analytics unless they’re Google themselves or a top 10 ecommerce company some politician wants to make an example of. There’s millions of sites relying on those things. Is the EU going to drag them all into court? This is like saying you never jay walk because you want to avoid the legal hot water. The water isn’t even lukewarm!
Some courts beg to disagree with your position: https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/31/website_fine_google_f...
CrUX data will be next. Using to be Chrome considered illegal in Germany.
This is different from going on the site of your local company and feeding data into Google analytics involuntarily.
The relevant legislation is about whether or not you agree to data being collected and shared, and the issue is that US companies are essentially data funnels for NSA & co.
I 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)
I 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)
Yes, you can always avoid the bad behavior of corporations by living in a tent in the wilderness. No, that doesn't mean we shouldn't regulate them.
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People shouldn't have to be experts in this stuff either just to put up a website somewhere, or worse keep up with every new ruling.
You don't need GA for a website either. Many websites probably don't even need any form of analytics at all.
I 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)
The 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.
IMO we should break away Google entirely and trial their execs for crimes against humanity. They're cooperating with USA, China, Saudi Arabia... by helping murderous regimes deploy their techno-police, how many million people have they helped imprison/murder?
So I can take follow someone in public, take picture of them in public places from some distance, follow them into stores, see what they are spending and what they are using, etc. Store owners can have cameras, track the behaviour of customers, etc But if I use a service which anonymously tracks which pages they opened on a website they voluntarily visited and are exploring, then I'm in trouble?