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This just sounds like a paranoid rant. If you have a problem with it, either don't visit the site or block the analytics. The reason they are using it is pretty obvious, like everyone else that builds digital services, they want to look at how it gets used. It is a non issue, that's not pretending, it's just putting on a rational hat and taking off the silly rhetoric of paranoia.

Personally, as someone who left the UK in the 90's for silicon valley, I'm blown away that the UK government has even heard of the internet, let alone built a decent digital service.

>>hnriot+(OP)
>> It is a non issue, that's not pretending, it's just putting on a rational hat and taking off the silly rhetoric of paranoia.

I'm glad you're happy to publish all the details of your interactions with government services to an advertising company in another country with far less in the way of data protection law.

I'm not.

>>Nursie+f1
So you're back to "Block the Analytics" and everyone is happy!

Or are you saying instead that you should impose your own personal choice on everyone else?

>>mpyne+g5
I'm saying I'd like to know what sort of privacy analysis was done here, whether it's in compliance with EU and UK privacy and data laws, and whether it's a good idea at all.

Just because I know how to block analytics doesn't mean everyone else has a clue they even exist, nor that we should allow our government to export data about us in this way.

>>Nursie+f1
Curious, do you use any one of the following services:

Amazon

Google (and any service under it)

Facebook

eBay

?

>>mbesto+u31
I use some of them.

None of them, however, is the UK government unnecessarily leaking details of my interactions across borders.