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No personally identifying information is sent to Google Analytics. IP addresses are anonymised, email addresses, dates, and postcodes are stripped too. See ht
by barrucadu 8y ago
No personally identifying information is sent to Google Analytics. IP addresses are anonymised, email addresses, dates, and postcodes are stripped too.
See https://github.com/alphagov/govuk_frontend_toolkit/blob/cf1c3fefe6608fc9e82883b09c2307513996f666/docs/analytics.md https://github.com/alphagov/govuk_frontend_toolkit/blob/cf1c... and https://github.com/alphagov/govuk_frontend_toolkit/blob/cf1c3fefe6608fc9e82883b09c2307513996f666/javascripts/govuk/analytics/analytics.js https://github.com/alphagov/govuk_frontend_toolkit/blob/cf1c...
- Nursie 8y agoIt's present on every page, and it's loaded from google. Anonymisation is pointless. The fact that they use Piwik on a couple of pages they consider sensitive (usually to do with payment) shows that even gov.uk know this cannot be relied upon to fully hide things. It shouldn't be there and I've raised a complaint with the ICO. Note that the page says that it can be configured to strip all that info, not that it does by default. One would have to look at each page to see how this is configured. And it could still be wrong to switch this on by default, under the GDPR.
- MaxBarraclough 8y ago> Anonymisation is pointless. How's that?