Sweden Orders Four Companies to Stop Using Google Tool

Sweden orders four companies to stop using Google tool

Sweden's privacy protection agency has ordered four companies to stop using Google Analytics to analyse web traffic, as doing so transfers personal data to the United States.

Sweden Orders Four Companies to Stop Using Google Tool

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — Sweden on Monday ordered four companies to stop using a Google tool that measures and analyzes web traffic, as doing so transfers personal data to the United States. One company was fined the equivalent of more than $1.1 million.  Sweden's privacy protection agency, the IMY, said it had examined the use of Google Analytics by the firms following a complaint by the Austrian data privacy group NOYB (none of your business), whic…