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Note that Wikimedia has been not using Google Analytics since forever because they're concerned about precisely the same privacy problems as the regulators.

This other post has more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30284820

I love that the plaintiff in this case is the "NOYB Association", as in None Of Your Fucking Business, Google.



You might know that already, but NOBY indeed stands for "None of Your Business"(https://noyb.eu/en).

The organisation has been involved in nearly all of the last privacy related rulings in the EU and is a real blessing for consumer rights.


And a note that you can donate to them, and I have done so for nearly four years.


It would seem Wikimedia is still violating the law as they keep Analytics data/data of users[0], but haven't yet pulled the Microsoft move of creating a separate EU company that the US-based entity has no control of.

0: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_retention_guidelines


It's totally plausible that Wikimedia and the EU have different, mutually incompatible responses to the same problem.




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