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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
