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Google Analytics May Be Illegal In Germany

Posted by kdawson on from the schmafe-harbor dept.

sopssa sends in a TechCrunch story that begins "Several federal and regional government officials in Germany are trying to put a ban on Google Analytics, the search giant's free software product that allows website owners and publishers to get detailed statistics about the number, whereabouts, and search behavior of their visitors (and much more)." Here's Google's translation of the article from Zeit Online (original in German). A German lawyer cited there says that penalties for websites that uses Google Analytics could amount to €50,000 (about $75,000). Reader sopssa adds, "The amount of data Google collects from everywhere on the Internet is indeed huge, and website owners should be using a local open source alternative to keep visitor data private."

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  1. Schadenfreude by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everything is illegal in Germany.

    1. Re:Schadenfreude by mrwolf007 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Everything is illegal in Germany.

      Bullshit. Only if its usefull for anything.
      Otherwise the chances of it being illegal are merely high.