Google Analytics poses data risks, claims French watchdog

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Google Analytics poses data risks, claims French watchdog

PARIS: Google Analytics, the world’s most widely used web analytics service developed by Alphabet’s Google, risks giving United States (US) intelligence services access to French website user’s data, French watchdog Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) stated on Thursday.

In a decision targeting an unnamed French website manager, the data privacy regulator-one of the most powerful and influential in Europe-said the U.S. tech giant had not taken sufficient measures to guarantee protection to user’s data privacy rights under European Union regulation when data was transferred between Europe and the US.

“These (measures) are not sufficient to exclude the accessibility of this data to US intelligence services,” the regular said in a statement. “There is therefore a risk for French website users who use this service and whose data is exported,” he added.

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The CNIL also said that the French manager in question had one month to act in accordance with the European Union regulations and that it had issued same orders to other website managers.

As for now, Google declined to comment on the CNIL decision. The firm has previously said that Google Analytics does not track people across the Internet and that organizations availing service from this tool have complete control over the data they collect.

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It should be noted that the CNIL’s decision follows a similar one by its Austrian counterpart, coming after complaints by Vienna-based noyb (Non of your Business), an advocacy group formed by an Austrian lawyer and privacy activist, Max Schrems, who won a high profile case against Europe’s top court, back in 2020.

The Court of Justice of the European Union at that time scrapped a translatic data transfer deal known as Privacy Shield, relied on by thousands of companies from services varying from cloud infrastructure to payroll and finance, because of concerns of similar nature.

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