Comments on: New – Google Analytics on Library Web Site http://library.duke.edu/blogs/libraryhacks/2008/12/19/new-%e2%80%93-google-analytics-on-library-web-site/ Tips and tools to save you time Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:57:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Paul http://library.duke.edu/blogs/libraryhacks/2008/12/19/new-%e2%80%93-google-analytics-on-library-web-site/comment-page-1/#comment-104851 Paul Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:06:05 +0000 http://library.duke.edu/blogs/libraryhacks/?p=2211#comment-104851 It looks like North Carolina's data privacy laws are looser than many states: http://ftp.legislature.state.nc.us/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_125/GS_125-19.html. Exception B1 looks open to ambiguous interpretation. We examined Google Analytics' EULA and noted that you're forbidden form reverse engineering the code, they can change it any time, and if it sits on a private/SSL page it can architecturally render the entire DOM contents visible to Google via javascript, effectively exposing research habits with a third party. It looks like North Carolina’s data privacy laws are looser than many states: http://ftp.legislature.state.nc.us/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_125/GS_125-19.html. Exception B1 looks open to ambiguous interpretation.

We examined Google Analytics’ EULA and noted that you’re forbidden form reverse engineering the code, they can change it any time, and if it sits on a private/SSL page it can architecturally render the entire DOM contents visible to Google via javascript, effectively exposing research habits with a third party.

]]> By: bill http://library.duke.edu/blogs/libraryhacks/2008/12/19/new-%e2%80%93-google-analytics-on-library-web-site/comment-page-1/#comment-91121 bill Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:35:06 +0000 http://library.duke.edu/blogs/libraryhacks/?p=2211#comment-91121 someday it would be interesting to try this. It's not a task for you, just would be fun to talk about sometime :) someday it would be interesting to try this. It’s not a task for you, just would be fun to talk about sometime :)

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