It seems to be entirely cookie-focussed though, and not even consider that data on UK citizen interaction with government, regardless of cookies, may be something to keep private.
I mean this - "despite the fact that no personal data was collected, it was good practice not to share analytics information with third parties in order to reassure government websites’ users." is ludicrous.
It's trivial for a service with as many hooks into everything as google to correlate cookies and IP addresses of visitors to GA-using sites with their Google accounts and other tracking data. It's almost as ludicrous as the answer I got direct from them "we don't allow google to use the data".
You don't allow it? How exactly is it that you stop them keeping records when every time I visit your pages my computer also tells them what I'm doing?
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It seems to be entirely cookie-focussed though, and not even consider that data on UK citizen interaction with government, regardless of cookies, may be something to keep private.
I mean this - "despite the fact that no personal data was collected, it was good practice not to share analytics information with third parties in order to reassure government websites’ users." is ludicrous.
It's trivial for a service with as many hooks into everything as google to correlate cookies and IP addresses of visitors to GA-using sites with their Google accounts and other tracking data. It's almost as ludicrous as the answer I got direct from them "we don't allow google to use the data".
You don't allow it? How exactly is it that you stop them keeping records when every time I visit your pages my computer also tells them what I'm doing?
What a load of carp.