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With regard to using an EU version of Google Analytics for websites in the EU, that is the wrong way round, even if the site is outside of the EU, if the visitor is from the EU, the tracking data cannot be sent to the USA.
It is the visitor to the site that dictates whether Google Analytics is allowed or not, not where the site is located.
BTW, Google could set up their Analytics in a number of countries, other than the United States, it wouldn’t have to be in Europe. The destination country, where the data is stored has to have equivalent levels of data protection to the EU, that would include:
- Andorra
- Argentina
- Canada (only commercial customers)
- Faroe Islands
- Guernsey
- Israel
- Isle of Man
- Japan
- Jersey
- New Zealand
- Republic of Korea
- Switzerland
- the United Kingdom under the [GDPR]
- Uruguay
Note the UK is only currently acceptable, since Brexit, and renewed since Truss was made Prime Minister, the UK has said that they want to scrap GDPR and all other “EU red tape”, including limits of the number of hours employees can work, holiday entitlement, sick pay, freedom of the press and a bunch of other rights people take for granted.
Come on America, you are a second class Internet Citizen, compared to Uruguay and the Faroe Islands? Really?
Regarding captchas, here are a couple of glorious examples.
It’s a technology that’s outlived its usefulness.
Not to Google it hasn’t. They are still probably having humans concur with their AI. The AI takes a photo and classifies it, then waits to show it to enough humans to see if they generate the same classifications. If humans intentionally (or otherwise) screw it up, it will take many showings until they feel they have reached a consensus. (There is not doubt additional AI involved in classifying the classifications.) Remember their goal is for their driving AI to “see everything possible” so they never have to “reason” a decision, but can in essence “just look it up”. That would tend to imply they’ll never want to stop classifying inputs taken on roads… at least until the AI is “smarter” than a human, in which case CAPTCHAs will no longer be needed because one of the things a human can do is recognize other humans.
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