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Reading: "Achtung! Google Analytics is illegal, say German government officials" ( http://bit.ly/4Y1WuG ) 12/21/2009 |
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One more reason why I don't want to be LIKE Europe. http://bit.ly/6yujGy 12/19/2009 |
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[Google][ドイツ]B! http://bit.ly/770Jib Achtung! Google Analytics is illegal, say German government officials 12/18/2009 |
Ich bin ein Googler!
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
... At one point in time US President John F. Kennedy triumphantly declared “Ich bin ein Berliner!” in a speech to the German people. Now the debate rages on as to whether the president proclaimed he was a Berlin citizen or a donut but that’s for another blog. Today though we learn from TechCrunch Europe that Eric Schmidt from Google may need to head to Deutschland to proclaim that he is one of the good guys as there are calls to ban Google Analytics from sites with a .de extension. ...
Using Google Analytics is Illegal in Germany
N.Design Studio | Design Blog & Portfolio » Blog —
... News: The German government is trying to put a ban on Google Analytics. The penalties could amount up to €50,000 (about $75,000) per website that uses Google Analytics. I feel sorry for the German developers and designers. Source: Techcruch. ...
This week on TechCrunch: very bad things, irritable Germans, retro fall-outs and shopping til you drop
TechCrunch —
... In other controversial news, it seems that the Germans are getting irritable, which is most unlike them. Reporting from the relatively safe – but strategically important – stronghold of Belgium, Robin Wauters tells us that ’several federal and regional government officials in Germany are trying to put a ban on Google Analytics’, on the basis that collecting user data without explicit permission breaches the country’s strict data protection laws. Google Germany’s Per Meyerdierks, however, says there’s nothing to worry about: the company is well ...
Search Marketing in Germany
SearchEngineWatch Experts —
... two months ago. Search marketers learned that the German government was taking a good look at Google Analytics, proclaiming it might be an illegal product. Zeit Online reported that German federal and state government officials are convinced that Google Analytics is against the law in Germany and that it should be forbidden. The reason for the German opposition: the tool gathers detailed statistics on visitors without the explicit consent of the visitors. The Germans are afraid that, based on the analytics data, Google will create profiles containing all sorts of information ...
The German privacy paradox
BuzzMachine —
As a group, Germans are more private than anyone I know. My German grandfather-in-law used to lecture me: “People do not need to know that.” Germans complain about Google Streetview taking pictures of them … in public. They’re going after Facebook on privacy. They say that Google Analytics violates privacy. They even enable convicted killers to expunge their names from Wikipedia out of privacy. And now they’re up in arms about airport body scanners.
Yet go into a German sauna, and there the Germans ...
