Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority

Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by germanier on Thursday February 10, 2022 @10:52AM (#30287903)

This is in general not true and German government departments share data with different departments all the time without explicit consent of the affected citizen. This is also not a good example as there are additional legal restrictions for government departments which businesses don't need to obey.

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Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by usr1106 on Thursday February 10, 2022 @11:02AM (#30288084)

If the sharing is not required by any law they have to ask. Sometimes they do. I'm sure there are cases where they share without either of the precondition met.

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Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by germanier on Thursday February 10, 2022 @11:06AM (#30288151)

There are cases in which sharing without asking is legal without it being required by law.

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Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by ben_w on Thursday February 10, 2022 @10:59AM (#30288034)

GDPR is a standardisation of pre-existing national rules within the EU member states, at the time including the UK’s Data Protection Act. When I was at university, one of the examples of the scope of the Data Protection Act was a barbershop which kept hand-written (no computer involved) records of customers, and one customer used the DPA to demand to see their records and then to have those records destroyed.

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