Best of Data Privacy — January 2022

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   Hacker News·4y

   Google Analytics declared illegal in the EU.

   The Austrian Data Protection Authority has declared Google Analytics illegal in Europe. Google is "subject to surveillance by US intelligence services and can be ordered to disclose data of European citizens to them" Google users can, however, make a setting in their Google accounts to stop Google from evaluating their use of third-party websites.

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   DevOps.com·4y

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   Hacker News·4y

   Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are deactivated

   When people deactivate their accounts, their profile disappears from view of other people, but not Facebook. Facebook views deactivation as a sign that a user may return to reactivate the account at some point. While deactivated accounts are not visible to others, Facebook handles them just like an active account.

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