Posted on 06/17/2013 1:32:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai
European institutions are tracking users of their web sites, in breach of the EU’s own data protection rules, EurActiv has learned. The fact has been confirmed by Europe’s data protection watchdog, in an interview with EurActiv, while Brussels is reviewing privacy legislation to tackle the abuse.
The European Data Protection Supervisor, Peter Hustinx, said that institutions were aware of the problem, that new guidelines are being drawn up to deal with the issue, and that his own office avoided using EU institutional software last year because he realized they were “inappropriate”. …
The European Commission’s homepage sets cookies to store information on surveys—which are not essential to the operation of its website—and technically they should warn about keeping the data.
Users browsing the Commission’s EURES homepage are tracked by Google Analytics without warnings, in clear breach of the current data protection rules. EurActiv has evidence of similar breaches on the Parliament’s web site. …
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Getting it out there before Snowden leaks it...
(all five of them? LOL)
...are tracked by Google Analytics...
I use FireFox with NoScript and I have yet to come across a site that does NOT run Google Analytics... FreeRepublic.com does.
What nefarious ill-doing is EurActiv trying to establish, exactly? With all the crap the EU is doing, they (EurActive) can't find something more worthy to write about?
EurActiv is generally pro-EU, so they are used to cranking out the propaganda. They don’t know what to do with this story; probably searching for an angle with which to blame the USA.
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