[Web4lib] Privacy and Google Analytics

[Francis Kayiwa]

On Dec 16, 2008, at 3:48 PM, William Denton wrote:

> We're thinking of using Google Analytics to track users.  I run logs  
> with AWStats [1] right now, and it's pretty good, but Google  
> Analytics can do more, and it's free (for some values of free).
>
> Privacy is a concern.  Did any of you find Google Analytics  
> conflicted with a privacy policy?  If you used it, did you announce  
> it and tell people how to avoid it?  I wouldn't want to deploy it  
> sneakily.
>
> I'm in Canada, which has a special privacy law called PIPEDA [2],  
> but any comments would be welcome, from any origin.

Here's an article I usually recommend to people considering Google  
Analytics.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/22/google_analytics_as_security_risk/

Your website may not have a high profile candidate like the President- 
elect but...

./fxk

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>
> Bill
>
> [1] http://awstats.sourceforge.net/
> [2] http://www.privcom.gc.ca/legislation/02_06_01_e.asp
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