First two paragraphs as summary, unedited: Blog post by NOYB.eu, who filed the initial complaint: https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-first-major-fine-eu-1-million-using-google-analytics
First two paragraphs as summary, unedited:
Sweden’s data protection watchdog has issued a couple of fines in relation to exports of European users’ data via Google Analytics which it found breach the bloc’s privacy rulebook owing to risks posed by U.S. government surveillance. It has also warned other companies against use of Google’s tool.
The fines — just over $1.1 million for Swedish telco Tele2 and less than $30,000 for local online retailer CDON — are notable as they are the first such fines following a raft of strategic privacy complaints targeting Google Analytics (and Facebook Connect) back in August 2020.
Sweden has proved itself to be a legitimately very pro-privacy place in our world. It's one of the few places that have done decent work regarding individual privacy and have strict laws they...
Sweden has proved itself to be a legitimately very pro-privacy place in our world. It's one of the few places that have done decent work regarding individual privacy and have strict laws they actually adhere to. Now... as for Google Analytics, it's literally Google's forte on which they have the capacity to infringe and bypass whatever they'd like for whatever use they'd desire, of course they have these sort of capabilities and sadly, it'll be a long ways away,if ever, for them to fall. Stay away from anything Google, please
If you look at the updates on this post, you'll see that Sweden finds itself in the company of quite a few European countries on this Google Analytics & Tag Manager business:...
If you look at the updates on this post, you'll see that Sweden finds itself in the company of quite a few European countries on this Google Analytics & Tag Manager business: https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-illegal
First two paragraphs as summary, unedited:
Blog post by NOYB.eu, who filed the initial complaint: https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-first-major-fine-eu-1-million-using-google-analytics
Sweden has proved itself to be a legitimately very pro-privacy place in our world. It's one of the few places that have done decent work regarding individual privacy and have strict laws they actually adhere to. Now... as for Google Analytics, it's literally Google's forte on which they have the capacity to infringe and bypass whatever they'd like for whatever use they'd desire, of course they have these sort of capabilities and sadly, it'll be a long ways away,if ever, for them to fall. Stay away from anything Google, please
If you look at the updates on this post, you'll see that Sweden finds itself in the company of quite a few European countries on this Google Analytics & Tag Manager business: https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-illegal
All thanks to NOYB.eu: https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-first-major-fine-eu-1-million-using-google-analytics