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>>obilgi+(OP)
If anyone from gov.uk is reading this, do you fancy answering the question I posed when the site was launched but never received an adequate answer to?

Why does gov.uk, a site all about allowing the British public to interact with the British government, use google analytics?

You are shipping all the data about all my interactions with my government off to a third party in another country. Another country that we know has not got the same legal data protection requirements, and one which has now been exposed as having massive internal spying problems.

And no, telling me "google aren't allowed to use the data" and then opening an outsourced helpdesk ticket with another US based company does not cut it.

>>Nursie+je
It is for these same reasons that I contacted Crimestoppers UK and asked them about their use of Google Analytics, especially on a site that is for 'anonymous' crime reporting.

They wrote back with a non-answer missing the point that they are voluntarily leaking crime victims' metadata to a US advertising company.

A site the size of gov.uk or crimestoppers.org.uk really cannot claim that they don't know how to switch to something like Piwik and keep the visitor data in-house and private.