Another EU nation says it's illegal to use Google Analytics

[robkelk]

* robkelk ponders whether to start this in General or Politics, flips a coin

Italy follows the lead of Austria and France, rules that sending data to Google Analytics in the US is a violation of the GDPR.

Mainly because any data that crosses the USA border can be examined by the NSA.

It's almost as if sending the data of EU citizens out for processing in the US, where intelligence services can get their hands on it, is a bad thing.