Anyone fancy telling the lot at gov.uk about this? It would be nice if they weren't using foreign owned (and likely foreign-located) servers to record and analyse what UK citizens do on UK government websites.
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?
Anyone fancy telling the lot at gov.uk about this? It would be nice if they weren't using foreign owned (and likely foreign-located) servers to record and analyse what UK citizens do on UK government websites.