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The main criticisms are that GA collect users' data without consent, without telling them what they collect and without giving them a simple way to get their da
by fhars 17y ago
The main criticisms are that GA collect users' data without consent, without telling them what they collect and without giving them a simple way to get their data reliably deleted,
all of which are forbidden according to german law. And before people start complaining that GA doens't collect personal information: there seems to be an emerging legal consensus in germany that an IP address is in fact a personally identifiable information. Nobody has ever been taken to court for running an apache with the default logging configuration, but there are people who think that that is an offence worth a fine of up to €50.000,-- too, just like running GA.
For those who can read german, here is a better text:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Bundesdatenschutzbeaftragter-kritisiert-Usertracking-bei-Krankenkassen-864903.html http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Bundesdatenschutzbeaf...
- ubernostrum 17y agoAnd soon this will be the way the whole EU works. And then the advertising market will collapse there and maybe they'll decide to come up with privacy laws that make sense...
- blue1 17y agoNot EU, this is how Europe works (certain parts of it at least, and certainly where I live). There is a certain political culture in european states that causes a sense of unease when anything of no trivial size is not "regulated". The "regulation" instinct is almost theological, it does not stem from problems or desired results or policies. When something important is not "regulated" somehow, it is perceived as potentially dangerous.