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 […]
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 […]