Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p...
by d1sxeyes on Friday February 11, 2022 @06:13AM
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Due to a misconfiguration by my local ISP which meant Google services were not accessible, I discovered that the UK government's 'parliamentlive.tv' has a dependency on JQuery loaded from Google's CDN.
You might say that it's up to the UK government to fix that, and I agree, but as an individual with no direct influence on the implementation of this service, it's also clearly not the case currently that:
> Anyone who's concerned about their data being collected can just block Google-or-like-related domains
Or at least, they can, but they may be excluded from civic services they are entitled to avail themselves of, which their taxes go towards paying for.
You might say that it's up to the UK government to fix that, and I agree, but as an individual with no direct influence on the implementation of this service, it's also clearly not the case currently that:
> Anyone who's concerned about their data being collected can just block Google-or-like-related domains
Or at least, they can, but they may be excluded from civic services they are entitled to avail themselves of, which their taxes go towards paying for.