{"id":1889,"date":"2022-02-14T23:44:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T06:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/isec-601-f21\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2022-02-14T23:44:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T06:44:31","slug":"google-analytics-privacy-protections-and-what-we-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/isec-601-f21\/2022\/02\/14\/google-analytics-privacy-protections-and-what-we-expect\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Google Analytics, Privacy Protections, and What We Expect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A recent decision in France ruled that Google Analytics are in breach<\/a> of section 44 of the GDPR due to international transfers in data, particularly those to the US. The commission which issued the ruling, the CNIL, expressed concerns<\/a> over what would happen to the data once it entered the United States, saying that French website users were at risk of having their data exploited, and citing concerns over accessibility of the data to US intelligence services. This comes after a 2020 ruling<\/a> in the EU\u2019s highest court, which again cited concerns that non-US persons could be subject to arbitrary surveillance from the US. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This ruling, which could have broad ramifications for the EU presence of internet behemoths (at least according to tech CEO Zuckerberg, seen here<\/a> throwing a tantrum), also draws attention to the differing expectations of privacy in the EU and the US. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the aftermath of the Snowden NSA revelations, it became a constant internet joke that nothing you do online is private, at least for those in the United States. One popular meme in recent years arising from this has been the \u201cFBI agent meme\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While jokes, these memes highlight the very real phenomenon that many young people no longer have an expectation of privacy, at least from government surveillance. This is exacerbated by the fact that information about government surveillance continues to be released, often to little surprise from the general public:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While most Americans hold<\/a> strong views about the importance of privacy in their lives, few have confidence that their data will remain private and secure, with only 6% of adults saying they were \u201cvery confident\u201d that their government agencies can keep their records private and secure. When asked about the data government collects as part of anti-terrorism efforts, 65% of Americans said there were not adequate limits. And this information was from 2014, surveying adults. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surprisingly however, younger Americans have begun to place less value on privacy, at least according to some preliminary studies. Only 42% of Gen Z respondents<\/a> said that data privacy is very important to them, as opposed to 54% of millenials. It is unclear whether this is due to the fact that this generation grew up with less expectation of privacy, both from the government and companies, as the first true digital natives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So why is this important? In many jurisdictions, including Canada, the guarantee of freedom from search and seizure only extends to what a person sees as a \u201creasonable expectation of privacy\u201d. If a descriptive approach applies here, where the \u201creasonable expectation\u201d is based on what privacy people believe that they have, then this changing expectation of privacy could be reason for extensive government overreach; after all, we expect the government to be watching us. This is why ensuring that cases take a normative approach, or looking at values and what \u201cought\u201d to be the case, is likely the approach to take due to the deterioration in expectations of privacy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent decision in France ruled that Google Analytics are in breach of section 44 of the GDPR due to international transfers in data, particularly those to the US. The commission which issued the ruling, the CNIL, expressed concerns over what would happen to the data once it entered the United States, saying that French … <\/p>\n

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