Google Analytics declared illegal in the EU.

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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 5 fun4 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

And then all of the sudden https://gifimage.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ron-paul-its-happening-gif-28.gif

[–]Antarchomachus 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Hallelujah, Go E.U.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yep - this and GMO regulations, and other approaches that one would hope influenced international standards and trade.

[–]BravoVictor 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Silicon Valley tech industry largely ignored the ruling

Exactly. A pretty meaningless and unenforceable ruling. It sounds like the judges don't understand how the Internet works. If a European visits a US hosted site, the US host is under no legal requirement to serve them a special European-only page that doesn't collect "personal data". Even if a tech company wanted to abide by that ruling, IP-to-geography mapping is imprecise. Building out functionality to tailor code to specific geographic regions is always unreliable.

I'm all for hating on Google, but this is just dumb of the EU, and a massive waste of their tax dollars. If you want to protect your data, don't rely on some weak unenforceable government law to do it. Use the uBlock extension, the Brave web browser, or some other tech that actually blocks the data collection.

[–]Gravi[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Shit won't be profitable (for Silicon Valley) and is too large scale to try and enforce, the individual was always meant to protect himself in all matters to be honest.

[–]Trajan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It is a problem for them if they have a legal presence in the EU, which they do. Also a problem for EU companies using Google Analytics as they'd likely be liable for deploying it to their customers.

It's all a bit of a mess.

[–]Tiwaking 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The issue at hand is that due to the American CLOUD Act US authorities are able to demand personal data from Google, Facebook and other US providers, even when they are operating outside of the US, so in Europe for instance.

Oh I see. Its a security issue for the EU.

[–]BravoVictor 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's a security issue for Americans too, even if they don't realize it. But relying on the government to fix it isn't the solution.

This isn't the first ruling like this. Google ignored the last one and they'll ignore this one.

[–]Tiwaking 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

BravoVictor 3 insightful - 1 fun - 3 hours ago It's a security issue for Americans too, even if they don't realize it. But relying on the government to fix it isn't the solution.

This isn't the first ruling like this. Google ignored the last one and they'll ignore this one.

Yes it is a security issue for Americans, but Big Tech pay the politicians to look the other way