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The French government asked a company to stop using Google Analytics on the grounds that it did not comply with the GDPR

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A French company was ordered to stop using Google Analytics because authorities said U.S. intelligence could access the data, posing a GDPR "risk." France's data protection authority, which has previously expressed concerns that Apple Advertising could violate GDPR law, has now concluded that access to Google Analytics would certainly be. It cites the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation to order at least one French company to stop using the service from Google.

The French government asked a company to stop using Google Analytics on the grounds that it did not comply with the GDPR

According to Le Monde, the National Commission on Informatics and Freedoms (CNIL) has issued an official statement about the unknown company. The statement said: "The website administrator has a month to adjust to comply with the directive. "。

"The CNIL states that data on Internet users (collected by Google Analytics) was transferred to the United States, which violates the GDPR ...," the statement continued. "It therefore requires website administrators to comply with gdpr processing and, if necessary, to stop using Google Analytics features (under current conditions) or to use tools that do not result in data being transferred outside the EU."

Europe enacted gdpr in 2018, but Le Monde said the new move against an unidentified number of companies was based on a July 2020 case known as the "Schrems II" judgment, where the DECISION of the Court of Justice of the European Union affected any data transfer outside the EU.

The CNIL said the judgment "underscores the risk that U.S. intelligence will have access to personal data transferred to the United States," or at least possibly "in circumstances where the transfer is not properly regulated."

Google did not comment on the CNIL's decision. However, its support page acknowledges that Google Analytics does not meet the requirements of gdpr by default. However, the same page offers a range of options to help users comply with the regulation.

These moves don't seem to satisfy CNIL now: "While Google has taken additional steps to regulate data transfer under Google Analytics, these are not enough to rule out the possibility of [U.S. intelligence access]. "

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