<story><title>CNIL makes Google Analytics almost illegal in France</title><url>https://www.cnil.fr/en/qa-cnils-formal-notices-concerning-use-google-analytics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rlpb</author><text>&amp;quot;makes Google Analytics almost illegal&amp;quot; is an editorialized (biased) title and that&amp;#x27;s not what the linked article says. Just because use of a product is determined to contravene a country&amp;#x27;s law doesn&amp;#x27;t mean that the product itself is made illegal; it can be adapted to be compliant instead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kmitz</author><text>Speaking of adapting the product, the article explicitely states : 
&amp;quot;Is it possible to set the Google Analytics tool so that personal data is not transferred outside the European Union?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;No.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;So right now it is practically impossible to use Google Analytics in a legal way in France.</text></comment>
<story><title>CNIL makes Google Analytics almost illegal in France</title><url>https://www.cnil.fr/en/qa-cnils-formal-notices-concerning-use-google-analytics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rlpb</author><text>&amp;quot;makes Google Analytics almost illegal&amp;quot; is an editorialized (biased) title and that&amp;#x27;s not what the linked article says. Just because use of a product is determined to contravene a country&amp;#x27;s law doesn&amp;#x27;t mean that the product itself is made illegal; it can be adapted to be compliant instead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kmeisthax</author><text>The product cannot be adapted as the concern is specifically that Google can be legally compelled to violate GDPR. Schrems II is &lt;i&gt;very explicit&lt;/i&gt; that EU companies cannot send data to the US for as long as the US CLOUD Act is on the books.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Banning Google Analytics&amp;quot; actually downplays it. Even Google &lt;i&gt;Fonts&lt;/i&gt; is actually illegal now; and it will continue to be illegal until the US does the smart thing and copypastes GDPR into local law.</text></comment>