Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics

Re:Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics by aliswe on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:00PM (#31852852)

What is a watchdog in this case, isn't it a non-governmental organization?

in that case how can they ban anything and what does that mean?

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Re:Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics by gruturo on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:01PM (#31852885)

This is an English translation from "Garante" which is actually a stronger word - more like Guarantor. It is an official authority with teeth.

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Re:Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics by etagate on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:09PM (#31852984)

Exactly. Just to clarify, this is the authority responsible for those multi-million dollars fines against faang

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Re:Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics by noneeeed on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:11PM (#31853021)

Certainly in UK English we use watchdog to mean any organisation that has an oversight role, frequently government ones. For example the Financial Services Authority might be described as “the banking watchdog”, it is very much a government agency.

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Re:Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics by chrisseaton on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:11PM (#31853030)

Why do you think watchdogs have to be non-governmental?

For example:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/may/05/uk-watchd...

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Re:Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics by x0x0 on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:04PM (#31852922)

It's likely a bad translation.

The Italian SA is the Italian Data Protection Agency (DPA), one of the per-country European regulators https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/structure/data-prote... . Which acts under the GDPR and predecessor data protection laws, and is very explicitly a governmental regulator.

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