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Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by yabadabadoes on Sunday December 01, 2019 @10:49AM (#21675985)
A user has clientids and/or userids and Google seems to be capable of connecting these back to learn things about users and sites. So what exactly is personally identifiable is a secret..

As I see it Google has fallen into the false position that things they agree not to do based on user settings is the same as not collecting and storing the data necessary to do them. I don't think regulators will see this Google's way.

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Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by asdfasgasdgasdg on Sunday December 01, 2019 @04:50PM (#21678029)
If the analytics records aren't associated with those IDs, and can't be reidentified due to protections like k-anonymity, I don't think it's relevant that Google has other records that are subject to gdpr, and are handled differently.
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