How is Unity Analytics impacted by "Privacy Shield" takedown?

Hi,
we are using Unity IAP to handle purchases and therefore the use of Unity Analytics is obligatory.

Now since the EU/US "Privacy Shield" is now history (taken down by EU courts) all transfer of personal data to the US is now illegal. I naively assume that somewhere in Analytics there is some data transfer to the US or a US Company (AWS anyone) and some of it may be considered personal. Can we disable Analytics while still using Unity IAP? We are not tracking any data ourselves so this question is about the data that Unity collects by default behind the scenes of IAP/Analytics. Will setting Analytics.initializeOnStartup to false have any impact on that?.

I hope that someone from Unity can clarify what the situation is and how Unity is planning to tackle the whole EU/US data transfer thing.

https://edpb.europa.eu/our-work-too...ions-judgment-court-justice-european-union_en

Thank you

 

You can disable Analytics at runtime with this code in Start() or Awake() in your first scene. We are looking to decouple IAP and Analytics in a future release.

Code (CSharp):

1. Analytics.initializeOnStartup = false;
2. Analytics.enabled = false;
3. PerformanceReporting.enabled = false;
4. Analytics.limitUserTracking = true;
5. Analytics.deviceStatsEnabled = false;

 

Thanks for the clarification. Will IAP still work if we disable Analytics via code?
Right now it still says it's required in the "Service" window. Just want to be extra sure.

Also, are there plans to get a "privacy (Shield / GDPR)" compliant version of analytics or are the flags you mentioned above already sufficient (we like data, just want to be on the safe side).

Thank you

 

Yes, IAP will continue to work. You might want to review https://unity3d.com/legal/gdpr

 

Will do, thank you for your swift reply!