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82% of EU govt websites stalked by Google


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2019 Mar 18, 9:21pm   564 views  1 comment

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/18/cookie_government_tracking_report/

All but three of the European Union member states' government websites are littered with undisclosed adtech trackers from Google and other firms, with many piggy-backing on third-party scripts, according to an analysis of almost 200,000 webpages.

The report (PDF), published today by Cookiebot in collaboration with civil rights association European Digital Rights (EDRi), scanned 184,683 EU government webpages on 11 and 12 March to assess the cookies on each.

It found that there were 112 companies slurping up information on EU citizens' browsing habits on the webpages of the governments supposedly fighting the good fight against excess stalking of netizens.


Cookies are the lesser problem.

The greater problem is the inclusion of Google javascript on Government sites. Those scripts have full access to everything a citizen does on the government sites, all the data entered by the user, how each page was viewed, even scrolling motions.

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1   WillPowers   2019 Mar 18, 11:32pm  

It's like saying guess who is really in control in Brussels. Google Earth the new lord and master.

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