September 26, 2022
In the last few months, we have witnessed multiple European Data Protection offices weigh on the legitimacy of Google Analytics.
Back in January, I’ve published a post that touched on the topic but was not really about Google Analytics.
So, let’s start looking at what happened, why Google Analytics seems to be so interesting for the European Privacy authorities, and finish with some guessing on what could happen in the next few months.
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January 10, 2022
The CNIL, France’s data regulator, fined Meta (Facebook) and Google for violating the GDPR for a total of 210M€.
More specifically:
- Google LLC (USA) got fined 90M€
- Google Ireland Limited got fined 60M€
- Facebook Ireland Limited got fined 60M€
Also, if the companies will not fix the issue within three months, an additional penalty of 100'000€/day will be added.
There are two facts that I think are very interesting about these fines:
the reason behind the fines
the fines issuer
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July 19, 2020
Today I did a big update to this website.
The goal of today’s update is the removal of Disqus.
I have decided to remove Disqus more than a year ago, with the decision to remove all cookies from this website.
The plan was to remove both Google Analytics and Disqus since those were the only two reasons this website was distributing cookies.
I removed Google Analytics in June 2019, and now I’ve removed Disqus, so this goal has now been achieved.
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