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Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by kyboren on Thursday February 10, 2022 @12:21PM (#30289434)
Well, it's not necessary to process any personal data in order to calculate that.

Can you ask your bookkeeper to tell you the top 3 best selling products for your top 5 customers without declaring that the purpose of the data transfer to the external bookkeeper is also to run sales analytics?

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Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by germanier on Thursday February 10, 2022 @12:29PM (#30289570)
It is necessary to process personal information for that purpose. That's what the sales records are.

> top 5 customers

You probably have to declare that the data is processed for that purpose in general terms but I don't see why consent would be necessary. Anyway, this analytics service claims it doesn't do this kind of analysis.

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Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by kyboren on Thursday February 10, 2022 @04:00PM (#30292427)
Obviously it depends on the system involved, but there should be no need to touch any column containing personally identifying information in order to calculate aggregate sales statistics for each of your products.
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