How to make WordPress DSGVO compliant
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 […]
Check website for external services
In order to check a website for data protection compliance, it is necessary, among other things, to examine the use of external services. Two questions need to be clarified: A solution such as decareto Compliance Monitoring determines this automatically for all services used on a website. However, there is also a completely free option, namely […]
Find out the location and hosting of a website
When assessing a website for GDPR compliance, the country of data processing plays an important role. Processing outside the EU is only permitted if an adequate level of data protection is guaranteed. There are therefore EU “adequacy decisions” for a number of countries; in the case of the USA, there is one for companies that […]
Make website DSGVO compliant: How to do it
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 […]
DSGVO Check: How to check your website for DSGVO compliance
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 […]
DSGVO Check Google Fonts – Check websites
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 […]
DSGVO Website Checklist: What to look for on your Website
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 […]
Borlabs Cookie Consent Tool – Test 2022
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 […]
Osano Cookie Consent vs. DP Cookie Consent – Test 2022
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 […]
TCF – Illegal Standard for Consent Banners in the Automated Advertising Business
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 […]