Google are the ones spying. The aggregate put on GA dashboard are a minute of the personal info they collect.
1. Legal: It's the site owners integrating GA and therefore taking on the liabilities just like they do with every other supplier. When a part in your car fails immediately after you bought it, it's the manufacturers job to fix it even if they acquired the parts from a third party (e.g. Bosch).
2. Practical: A website 100% located in France and catering to 100% french customers is much more likely to fix the problem than the international anonymous machine that is Google.
>In this context, a unique identifier is assigned to each visitor. This identifier (which constitutes personal data) and the associated data are transferred by Google to the United States.
It's their responsibility to include or not google analytics, though.
IMO we should break away Google entirely and trial their execs for crimes against humanity. They're cooperating with USA, China, Saudi Arabia... by helping murderous regimes deploy their techno-police, how many million people have they helped imprison/murder?
