Google Analytics Illegal in Germany

Google Analytics Illegal in Germany-> 0

Submitted by sopssa on Tuesday November 24 2009, @02:17PM

sopssa writes "TechCrunch is reporting that "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). — One German lawyer that gets cited in the article says the penalties could amount up to €50,000 (about $75,000) per website that uses Google Analytics to keep track of its visitors’ usage patterns." The amount of data Google collects from everywhere of the internet is indeed huge and website owners should be using local open source alternatives to keep the visitor data private."
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