French watchdog says Google Analytics poses data privacy risks


FILE PHOTO: The Google logo is pictured at the entrance to the Google offices in London, Britain January 18, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo

PARIS (Reuters) - Google Analytics, the world's most widely used web analytics service developed by Alphabet's Google, risks giving U.S. intelligence services access to French website users' data, France's watchdog CNIL said on Thursday.

In a decision targeting an unnamed French website manager, the data privacy regulator -- one of the most vocal and influential in Europe -- said the U.S. tech giant hadn't taken sufficient measures to guarantee data privacy rights under European Union regulation when data was transferred between Europe and the United States.

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