WordPress is considered the most popular content management system and offers a large number of functions and plugins, themes and widgets for the creation and design of websites, with which you can individually build and expand websites. However, not all of these comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO), which requires personal data to […]
When loading web pages, connections to Google servers are often established, because Google Fonts was used via a Google code. This results in personal data such as the IP address and other information of users being passed on to Google. For this reason, using Google Fonts without consent is not legally compliant, as sharing personal […]
When users arrive at a website, the user experience starts right on the home page: If the home page is not attractively designed, users are overwhelmed by content or can't find their way around, they will leave the site again. An attractive web design, relevant content and clear navigation are just a few of the […]
Nowadays, it is unfortunately not enough for websites or online stores to simply look nice. They must also have no technical errors, be search engine optimized and designed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO). You can find out whether your website meets all the requirements with a website check. How you can […]
If you embed YouTube videos on your own website, personal data of the user is automatically passed on to YouTube and Google as soon as the user arrives on your website - this is not DSGVO-compliant without further ado. However, this transfer of data can be prevented to the extent that it only happens when […]
The General Data Protection Regulation, in force since May 2018, is mainly based on the lawful handling of personal data of website users and includes some rules on how a website should look like in order to be legally compliant. In particular, the General Data Protection Regulation relies on the rights of individuals to protect […]
Adapting your own website with regard to the General Data Protection Regulation is indispensable for companies or self-employed persons. There are quite a few regulations and rules to adhere to, so it's easy to lose track. Do you know if your website is optimized according to the General Data Protection Regulation? A DSGVO check should […]
If you want to build a website for a business, there are some regulations you need to adhere to in order to make your website legally compliant. The DSGVO, which has been in effect since 2018, mandates these regulations in Germany. To help you know what to do to make websites DSGVO compliant, we've put […]
The issue of "data processing in insecure third countries" has caused massive legal uncertainty among companies. If one is 100% accurate, then cloud services from Amazon or Microsoft should no longer be used at all, with unforeseeable consequences for domestic companies and administration. However, there is no reliable case law on this, and so for […]
The Facebook Pixel is one of the most used services on websites. It was launched in 2015 (here’s the link to the announcement), and the announcement made it clear back then what it was all about: […] a new way to report and optimize for conversions, build audiences and get rich insights about how people […]
After presenting two open source projects in part 1 of our article series on consent tools , this time Borlabs Cookie is under scrutiny – possibly the most common commercial consent tool (at least it is the most common on the websites decareto scanned). It belongs to the ecosystem of WordPress, the most popular content management system for websites, and […]
We are occasionally asked by customers which consent tool we think is particularly recommendable - especially when our DSGVO scanner decareto has found a misconfigured consent tool on a website, which often happens. So far, I've been reluctant to make recommendations because I can't answer the question. I know one tool well from my own […]
In an interview in December 2020, journalist Richard Gutjahr asked the president of the Bavarian data protection supervisory authority, Michael Will, to reject all trackers on the Süddeutsche Zeitung website as a test. The supervisor failed spectacularly because he allowed himself to be led astray by "dark patterns" in the SZ's consent banner. Believing in […]
Credit institutions are particularly heavily regulated and have well-equipped compliance departments. It can therefore be assumed that they also comply with applicable laws in terms of data protection. But, is this really the truth? decareto examined the websites of 28 of the largest banks in Germany and the result is sobering: no defects were found on only […]
With the DSGVO and the ePrivacy Directive (and maybe soon the ePrivacy Regulation), the EU has introduced regulations that have required a lot of implementation work from companies. Since the groundbreaking judgments of the European Court of Justice and the Federal Court of Justice in 2020, there have been increasing efforts by companies to make their […]
