News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority. Parent comment

Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by judge2020 on Thursday February 10, 2022 @10:09AM (#30287133)
Is that really the only reason behind GA being 'banned'? If google broke off Ireland ltd into its own company and that company simply 'licensed' Google products for $1, would they be in the clear?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by altairprime on Thursday February 10, 2022 @11:32AM (#30288603)
Unlikely. The EU courts would reasonably be expected to decide that, as Google Ireland is merely a sham corp for the purpose of operating a codebase that is wholly deferred to the same US control (just as before the sham corp), that this is equivalent to the prior arrangement and still illegal.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by lmkg on Thursday February 10, 2022 @10:23AM (#30287378)
What matters is the US CLOUD Act, because that's the thing that lets US Intelligence have access to data stored in EU servers. If legal arrangement is covered by the CLOUD Act, it's a GDPR violation.
[ Parent | on HN ]