As already mentioned, Google Analytics also had to reduce the data send to US servers. It is (more or less) forbidden to generally log IP addresses now (the big

As already mentioned, Google Analytics also had to reduce the data send to US servers. It is (more or less) forbidden to generally log IP addresses now (the big web hosters already anonymize their log files - the default apache logfile format is somehow illegal in Germany now). I am german myself and fully agree with the privacy enforcing people in Germany and EU. Everytime you visit a website where someone added a Like button a whole set of tracking data will be submitted to US servers without a chance for me to forbid this. (Never saw a message "Is it ok for you that I load the Facebook Like button where your data will be transmitted to Facebook?") And after Facebook has a nearly complete profile over my web activities (every 2nd page already has a Like button) practically the US government also has all those data (edit: for fairness: everyone who pays for the data too)