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Reasons: 1. Legal: It's the site owners integrating GA and therefore taking on the liabilities just like they do with every other supplier. When a part in your

Reasons: 1. Legal: It's the site owners integrating GA and therefore taking on the liabilities just like they do with every other supplier. When a part in your car fails immediately after you bought it, it's the manufacturers job to fix it even if they acquired the parts from a third party (e.g. Bosch). 2. Practical: A website 100% located in France and catering to 100% french customers is much more likely to fix the problem than the international anonymous machine that is Google.

V__ 5y ago
> When a part in your car fails immediately after you bought it, it's the manufacturers job to fix it even if they acquired the parts from a third party (e.g. Bosch). And the manufacturer can go after Bosch, who is responsible in the end. > than the international anonymous machine that is Google. Except the law applies to Europe as a whole, and it's really not that much to ask one of the biggest technology companies in the world to use European servers and anonymize European traffic by default. They just don't want to or don't care. Which both should be reason enough to stronger regulate them.
- arlcode 5y ago
  Very true. I think we will see a two pronged approach to the Problem. On the EU level, the commission and the states will engage Google directly while on a national level individual companies will be "encouraged" to find alternatives.
  - V__ 5y ago
    Yeah, that would be my prediction as well.
rightbyte 5y ago
> the international anonymous machine that is Google. Uber, Google etc really wants this to be true. However, it is trivial for a nation state to shut down Google's commercial interest in the country. Just have the police lock the door to their office and blacklist a bank account or two. If doing business with Google becomes illegal, they will lose almost all revenue except some indirect shell company ads. Seems way less work to make Google compliant than to figure out which sites in French are actually French jurisdiction.

V__ 5y ago

> When a part in your car fails immediately after you bought it, it's the manufacturers job to fix it even if they acquired the parts from a third party (e.g. Bosch). And the manufacturer can go after Bosch, who is responsible in the end. > than the international anonymous machine that is Google. Except the law applies to Europe as a whole, and it's really not that much to ask one of the biggest technology companies in the world to use European servers and anonymize European traffic by default. They just don't want to or don't care. Which both should be reason enough to stronger regulate them.

arlcode 5y ago
Very true. I think we will see a two pronged approach to the Problem. On the EU level, the commission and the states will engage Google directly while on a national level individual companies will be "encouraged" to find alternatives.
- V__ 5y ago
  Yeah, that would be my prediction as well.

rightbyte 5y ago

> the international anonymous machine that is Google. Uber, Google etc really wants this to be true. However, it is trivial for a nation state to shut down Google's commercial interest in the country. Just have the police lock the door to their office and blacklist a bank account or two. If doing business with Google becomes illegal, they will lose almost all revenue except some indirect shell company ads. Seems way less work to make Google compliant than to figure out which sites in French are actually French jurisdiction.