What is the alternative here? Should Enfield spend tax payer money creating an alternative tool to show banner ad cross-promotions and re-training their teams?
Where do you stop? Is Google Analytics evil too? What about Twitter feeds?
Where do you stop? Is Google Analytics evil too? What about Twitter feeds?
Absolutely.
> What about Twitter feeds?
In what context? Including/embedding Twitter cookies and/or Javascript in pages paid-for by citizens, which citizens are required to use to exercise their rights? Absolutely.
As a non-exclusive outlet to disseminate information via an independent site (twitter.com), which anyone is free to avoid and ignore? That's fine.
Should they use an alternative platform? probably not, because twitter is the biggest and best known, so you could argue you can reach the most people with it.
So they're excluding people who don't use twitter? Why can't their web pages be the main source of real-time information?
Yes, Google Analytics has many of the same problems. The alternative to that is to analyze the server logs or to simply not track your users' behaviour in detail.
that's unpossible
Yes. Both bad.