Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority

Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by hdjjhhvvhga on Thursday February 10, 2022 @10:19AM (#30287320)

No, it's not. Using Matomo on my own servers has nothing to do with the way GA etc. operates - it's an equivalent of going through my own Nginx logs and parsing them to generate diagrams and so on. Of course if I share personally identifiable data with a third party, it's a completely different thing - in this case it does not matter if it comes from Matomo or web server logs.

But I agree with your conclusion: what matters is how it's being used. In this case - whether you share/sell it to others or not.*

[*] But not only: it also matters if you take adequate care in protecting personally identifiable information or not.

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Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by germanier on Thursday February 10, 2022 @10:33AM (#30287548)

In general, under the GDPR it doesn't matter much whether you process data yourself on your own server or contract that same task out to a third-party. Either that processing is legal or it isn't - ownership of the server doesn't play a role.

The problem with Google Analytics here is not that it's a third-party but that it's under US control.

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