Field notes
Guides to analytics consent and privacy law in the US, EU and UK, with sources. General information, not legal advice.
- Do I need a cookie banner for analytics?
US, EU and UK rules for analytics consent banners in one table, with the CNIL exemption and the UK 2026 statistics exception.
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- CIPA lawsuits and website analytics: 2026 update
Filing counts by year, what SB 690 changes from 2027, the Kaiser and Flo cases, what plaintiffs target and what reduces risk.
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- Google Analytics without a cookie banner: your options
What GA4 sets and sends, where it needs consent, what consent mode does, and five ways to run analytics with or without a banner.
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- Cookieless tracking explained
How analytics count visits without cookies, what each method stores, how EU and US law treat them, and a glossary of the terms.
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- Analytics tools that need a banner: GA4, Hotjar, Mixpanel, Amplitude, Heap and Adobe
What GA4, Adobe Analytics, Heap, Amplitude, Mixpanel and Hotjar store in the browser and send, from each vendor’s own docs, and where that needs consent.
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