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Google is developing a plug-in for its flagship web analytics product designed to allow users to opt-out of being tracked by the service.
Google Analytics (GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Its main highlight is that the product is aimed at marketers as opposed to webmasters and technologists from which the industry of web analytics originally grew. It is the most widely used website statistics service, currently in use at around 57% of the 10,000 most popular websites.
Web giant to offer opt-out option for its flagship web analytics product
Google Analytics group product manager Amy Chang explained that the firms engineers are currently working on finalising and testing the new opt-out functionality which is set for roll out globally in the next few weeks.As an huge enterprise-class web analytics solution, Google Analytics not only provides site owners or bloggers with information on their website traffic and marketing effectiveness, it also have much to do with privacy like for protecting user data privacy, wrote Chang.Over the past year, we have been exploring ways to offer users more choice on how their data is collected by Google Analytics.Google technologies have been criticised for infringing on user privacy with increasing regularity this year. The Analytics announcement comes as a 24 year-old Harvard Law School student filed a class action suit against the web giant alleging that its new Buzz social networking tool invaded her privacy.Although Google has made a number of changes to Buzz, many users and privacy advocates are still not satisfied with the service, feeling that they were automatically opted-in without giving their explicit consent."It is not so much that we are expecting to get millions of people hundreds of dollars," said one of the students attorneys this week."What we would like to see is a commitment from Google that it is not going to do this again the next time it launches a product."
Google Analytics (GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Its main highlight is that the product is aimed at marketers as opposed to webmasters and technologists from which the industry of web analytics originally grew. It is the most widely used website statistics service, currently in use at around 57% of the 10,000 most popular websites.
Web giant to offer opt-out option for its flagship web analytics product
Google Analytics group product manager Amy Chang explained that the firms engineers are currently working on finalising and testing the new opt-out functionality which is set for roll out globally in the next few weeks.As an huge enterprise-class web analytics solution, Google Analytics not only provides site owners or bloggers with information on their website traffic and marketing effectiveness, it also have much to do with privacy like for protecting user data privacy, wrote Chang.Over the past year, we have been exploring ways to offer users more choice on how their data is collected by Google Analytics.Google technologies have been criticised for infringing on user privacy with increasing regularity this year. The Analytics announcement comes as a 24 year-old Harvard Law School student filed a class action suit against the web giant alleging that its new Buzz social networking tool invaded her privacy.Although Google has made a number of changes to Buzz, many users and privacy advocates are still not satisfied with the service, feeling that they were automatically opted-in without giving their explicit consent."It is not so much that we are expecting to get millions of people hundreds of dollars," said one of the students attorneys this week."What we would like to see is a commitment from Google that it is not going to do this again the next time it launches a product."
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