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How to make Google Analytics GDPR compliant

5 pointsby markosaricalmost 5 years ago

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Nextgridalmost 5 years ago
I am not confident that the &quot;anonymize IP&quot; option is GDPR compliant.<p>This asks Google not to store the IP in full, however the IP is still transmitted to them (as an unavoidable side-effect of loading the library and sending the analytics events).<p>I am not sure if the other options they recommend disabling actually disable the initial <i>collection</i> of the data, or whether they only instruct Google to not <i>process</i> that data when they receive it.<p>Even if we assume that Google is acting in good faith (which at this point is a very big &quot;if&quot;), transmitting the data to Google still opens up a theoretical risk of that data being intercepted by a malicious attacker with access to Google&#x27;s infrastructure, and no matter how small this risk is I can see someone potentially making an argument about it with the regulator.