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This is a totally different question, in this case what matters is that Google can be compelled to release the full IP address by US intelligence agencies.
by ATsch 5y ago
This is a totally different question, in this case what matters is that Google can be compelled to release the full IP address by US intelligence agencies.
- intrasight 5y agoSo it's an easy fix for Google - change GA to only save those anonymized IPs
- ATsch 5y agoNot quite. Google still has access to those IPs when it receives the request from the browser and could be compelled to store them by US intelligence. Thus data are being transferred to a party that can not adequately protect them. So in this case, as I understand it, the solution would have to be something more elaborate, like proxying the analytics requests through the server to strip the original IP address. Which I presume Google isn't very eager to allow.
- intrasight 5y agoLots of other tech companies, as I understand it, choose not to be "compelled" to store something they don't want to store. Apple being the prime example.