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• Google Analytics Now Illegal in Austria ; Other EU Member States Expected to Follow

  18 janvier 2022, par Erin — Privacy

  Breaking news : The Austrian Data Protection Authority (“Datenschutzbehörde” or “DSB” or “DPA”) has ruled that Austrian website providers using Google Analytics are in violation of the GDPR. 

  This ruling stems from a decision made in 2020 by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that stated that cloud services hosted in the US are incapable of complying with the GDPR and EU privacy laws. The decision was made because of the US surveillance laws requiring US providers (like Google or Facebook) to provide personal data to US authorities. 

  The 2020 ruling, known as “Schrems II”, marked the ending of the Privacy Shield, a framework that allowed for EU data to be transferred to US companies that became certified. 

  The tech industry was sent into a frenzy following this decision, but many US and EU companies decided to ignore the case. The choice to ignore is what landed one Austrian business in the DPA’s line of fire, damaging the brand’s reputation and possibly resulting in a hefty fine of up to €20 million or 4% of the organisation’s global turnover. 

  About the Austrian DPA’s Model Case 

  In this specific case, noyb (the European Center for Digital Rights) found that IP addresses (which are classified as personal data by the GDPR) and other identifiers were sent to the US in cookie data as a result of the organisation using Google Analytics. 

  This model case led to the DPA’s decision to rule that Austrian website providers using Google Analytics are in violation of GDPR. It is believed that other EU Member States will soon follow in this decision as well.

  "We expect similar decisions to now drop gradually in most EU member states. We have filed 101 complaints in almost all Member States and the authorities coordinated the response. A similar decision was also issued by the European Data Protection Supervisor last week."

  What does this mean if you are using Google Analytics ?

  If there is one thing to learn from this case, it is that ignoring these court rulings and continuing to use Google Analytics is not a viable option. 

  If you are operating a website in Austria, or your website services Austrian citizens, you should remove Google Analytics from your website immediately. 

  For businesses in other EU Member States, it is also highly recommended that you take action before noyb and local data protection authorities start targeting more businesses. 

  "Instead of actually adapting services to be GDPR compliant, US companies have tried to simply add some text to their privacy policies and ignore the Court of Justice. Many EU companies have followed the lead instead of switching to legal options."

  Removing Google Analytics from your site doesn’t mean that you need to give up website analytics altogether though. There are a variety of Google Analytics alternatives available today. Matomo in particular is a powerful open-source web analytics platform that gives you 100% data ownership and GDPR compliance. 

  

  Matomo is one of the best Google Analytics alternatives offering privacy by design on our Cloud, On-Premise and Matomo for WordPress. So you can get the insights you need while remaining compliant. As the GDPR continues to evolve, you can rest assured that Matomo will be at the forefront of these changes. 

  In addition, all Google Analytics data can be imported into Matomo so no historical data is lost. To make your migration as seamless as possible, we’ve put together a guide to migrating from Google Analytics to Matomo. 

  Ready to begin your journey to GDPR compliance ? Check out our live demo and start your 21-day free trial now – no credit card required.

  If you are interested in learning more about GDPR compliance and Matomo, check out our GDPR resources below :    

  • GDPR Manager user guide
  • How to fill in the information asset registration when using Matomo
  • How to make Matomo GDPR compliant in 12 easy steps
  • How to not process any personal data with Matomo and what it means for you
  • PII, personal data and GDPR. Discover what this means for your privacy
  • How should I write my privacy notice for Matomo Analytics under GDPR
  • Lawful basis for processing personal data under GDPR with Matomo
  • How to complete your privacy policy with Matomo Analytics under GDPR
  • GDPR compliance for Premium Features
  • How to get your Matomo plugin ready for GDPR
  • Subprocessors on Matomo Cloud (subprocessors not applicable to On-Premise)
  • Privacy in Matomo

  What does this mean if you are using Matomo ? 

  Our users can rest assured that Matomo remains in compliance with GDPR as all data is stored in the EU (Matomo Cloud) or in any country of your choice (Matomo On-Premise). With Matomo you’re able to continue analysing your website and not worry about GDPR.

  Final thoughts

  For EU businesses operating websites, now is the time to act. While Google pushes out false narratives to try and convince users that it is safe to continue using Google Analytics, it’s clear from these court rulings that the data protection authorities across the EU disagree with Google’s narrative.

  The fines, reputational damage and stresses mounting from using Google Analytics are imminent. Find an alternative to Google Analytics as this problem is not going away. 

  Getting started with Matomo is easy. Make the switch today and start your free 21-day trial – no credit card required. 

• Matomo to end support for Internet Explorer 11

  21 septembre 2021, par Matomo Core Team — Community

  A lot of the Matomo user interface is built on top of a programming framework called “Angular.js”. The support for this framework will end very soon, meaning we have to migrate the Matomo user interface to an alternative framework. The Matomo development team has chosen this new framework to be “Vue.js 3”.

  Unfortunately, Vue.js does not support Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11). Therefore, we have to drop the support for IE 11. Many other popular services like Microsoft and WordPress recently did the same. This is happening because IE 11 was released about 8 years ago and is now used by less than 0.5% of the internet. 

  When will this change happen ?

  Our next release (Matomo 4.5) will still support IE 11. It will show a notification in the user interface if you are using Internet Explorer to make you aware of this upcoming change. 

  When Matomo 4.6 is released around November 2021, then IE 11 will no longer be supported.

  What does “end support” mean ?

  The Matomo user interface will work less and less over time for people using IE 11 as a browser. While Matomo 4.6 might still mostly work with IE 11, once we migrate more of the user interface the functionality will stop working completely. It’s possible that even Matomo 4.6 will no longer be functional with IE 11 at all.

  What should I do now ?

  If you are impacted by this, then we strongly recommend that you switch to a more modern browser. Preferably a privacy-friendly browser like Mozilla Firefox or Brave. But any modern browser including Microsoft Edge, Safari and Google Chrome will work just fine.

  If you can’t use a different browser and you are using Matomo On-Premise, then you can install and configure this new plugin which lets you only receive Matomo core updates that are compatible with IE 11. This will prevent you from accidentally upgrading to a Matomo core release that doesn’t work with IE 11, and you can still receive critical security updates and bug fixes until February 2022.

  Will this affect the Matomo JavaScript tracker ?

  No, all visitors using IE 11 will still be tracked and Matomo tracker will support the same browsers as before. Meaning also some older versions of Internet Explorer are still supported.

  Have any questions about this ?

  Get in touch with us 

• FFMPEG : Create timestamp based on actual creation time

  2 juillet 2022, par Peder Wessel

  Desired outcome

  


  Add overlay with timestamp for each frame of a video based on the original creation time for the video. E.g. starting at 2022-03-26T15:51:49.000000Z and a second later in the video present 2022-03-26T15:51.50.000000Z

  


  Approach

  


  Creation_time stored in the file already, e.g. when running ffmpeg -i input.mov" it presents creation_time   : 2022-03-26T15:51:49.000000Z.

  


  Adding overlay with timestamp to video :
ffmpeg -i input.mov -filter_complex "drawtext=text='%{pts\:gmtime\:1507046400\:%d-%m-%Y %T}': x=100 : y=100: box=1" -c:a copy output.mp4

  


  Challenge/ help needed

  


  Need to replace the gmtime\:1507046400 with the actual creation_time. How does one do it ?

  


  Sources

  


  

  • Overlay : https://superuser.com/questions/1013753/how-can-i-overlay-the-captured-timestamp-onto-a-video-using-ffmpeg-in-yyyy-mm-dd

  


  • Creation_time :
FFMPEG - Get creation and/or modification date