Privacy

Shortly before Christmas, the supervisory authorities updated the “Orientierungshilfe für Anbieter:innen von Telemedien” (OH Telemedien 2021), which is crucial for the legally compliant use of web analysis. The background to this was the Telecommunications Telemedia Data Protection Act (TTDSG in German), which came into force on 1 December 2021 and in which the ePrivacy Directive …

The most important facts about the new “Guidlines for Telemedia Providers” of the German data protection supervisory authority of 20 December 2021 Mehr erfahren »

The French data protection authority CNIL fined Google 150 million euros and Facebook 60 million euros.  The reason, according to the restricted committee, the body of the CNIL responsible for issuing sanctions: ” Several clicks are required to refuse all cookies, against a single one to accept them.” (see https://www.cnil.fr/en/closure-injunction-issued-against-google) In Germany, too, it is …

Google and Facebook fined millions for aggravated cookie refusal Mehr erfahren »

In alignment with the French data protection authority, the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL), we have created a new data protection setting. This meets all requirements for exemption from the consent requirement for the use of cookies in accordance with the French supervisory authority. The CNIL exemption provides that in the case …

CNIL confirms: etracker Analytics consent-free even with cookies Mehr erfahren »

The end of the Privacy Shield Framework by the Schrems II ruling of the European Supreme Court causes enormous challenges for many companies, as US tools dominate in many marketing tech areas. The ruling has implications not only for future illegal data transfers, but also for any historical data that has illegally transfered to the …

Web analytics and transatlantic data transfer Mehr erfahren »