Check if your Website processes Data abroad > 3 Easy Steps
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 […]
Does a Website use Facebook Pixel? – Verify FB Pixel Usage
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 […]
How to Safely Check if a Website contains Google Fonts
More and more companies are receiving form letters claiming damages for the use of Google Fonts. We cannot give legal advice or tips on how to deal with these letters here, but again, prevention is better than cure. Check your own websites or those of your customers for Google Fonts with a few steps! Just […]
Find Data Protection Gaps in Mobile App – Step-by-Step Guide
Scanning a website for illicit use of external services is not very difficult, since every web browser has built-in developer tools that can be used to detect snooping services (this is fully described in our e-book ). Mobile apps are a bit different – they also use external services, but this goes under the radar of most […]
Bank Websites – 80% have Data Protection Deficiencies
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 […]
Data Protection Risks on DAX-30 Websites
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 […]