Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority

Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by belorn on Thursday February 10, 2022 @07:46PM (#30295243)

Its very interesting if limiting how companies are allowed to track, store and sell private information would be the central issue for which the internet will fragment around. It almost like tracking, storing and selling is the center of the modern Internet, rather than protocols like tcp, upd, https and so on.

In the past people said that the Internet was made for porn. Today the Internet is seemingly made for advertisement and surveillance. It not strange that so many people who worked in this industry for decades are feeling a bit lost in this new horrifying industry, which if the Internet really is made only to do advertisement and surveillance, I honestly think humanity is better off without it.

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Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by VikingCoder on Thursday February 10, 2022 @08:09PM (#30295441)

The internet is a tool.

You should support companies with the best behavior.

I worked at a company that enabled a radiologist in over country to do a preliminary read of a CT scan performed in another country.

Cutting the amount of time for a CT scan, and even connecting a CT scan with a radiologist who specialized in that particular kind of scan, we saved lives.

And yes, there's also furry porn.

It's a tool.

I feel like I'm trying to convince you that BOOKS are good, despite the existence of hentai.

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Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by belorn on Friday February 11, 2022 @06:16AM (#30300053)

Could that company exist if it wasn't allow to use advertisement or sell private information? In the past I would say yes without question since there is nothing inherently in connecting a CT scan with a radiologist specialist that require Google Analytics. Nothing at all.

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