Starting a business is tough, but maintaining it is another difficulty level. As such, ensuring that your business is compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR is extremely important. But first of all, what is GDPR, and why should your business comply with it? In a nutshell, it’s a regulation that both EU...
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Is server-side tracking the solution to privacy and cookie woes?
There are a lot of articles that misrepresent the process of server-side tracking or ignore key facts. In this article, we cover the most important aspects of server-side tracking and explain how you can use it for your business. What does server-side tracking actually mean? Server-side tracking requires that you change the way you track...
Belgian Data Protection Authority: Central standard for cookie banners unlawful
The Belgian data protection authority Autorité de protection des données (APD) has declared a central standard for online advertising to be inadmissible under data protection law. It has imposed a fine of 250,000 euros on the advertising organization IAB Europe. In addition, the IAB was asked to delete all collected data. Because the decision was...
Can I use Google Analytics without risk?
Google Analytics violates the GDPR and using this tool is illegal and using it is a risk. These and similar headlines have often appeared in the media in recent weeks. The reason for these headlines and press coverage on Google Analytics was due to decision by the data protection authority in Austria. THe agency found...
Irish regulator orders Meta to suspend data transfers to US
Meta, the Facebook owner, is under threat from Ireland's data regulator. They will order Meta to stop data transfers to the United States. This comes in the wake of a privacy case that has already seen threats from the social media giant to withdraw its websites from Europe. Helen Dixon, the Irish data protection commissioner,...
What does GDPR mean in practise?
Many businesses thought that by adding Cookie consent banners to their web pages and opt-in forms for email newsletter subscriptions they have satisfied the GDPR requirements. As it turns out, this is not the case. There are rulings by the Datenschutzbehörde in Austria, CNIL in France and a court in Munich that show how far...
Google Fonts violate the GDPR
Loading Google Fonts via URL is a violation of GDPR rules. A ruling of court in Munich sets a precedent. On January 20, a Munich district court ruled that a plaintiff was entitled to an injunctive relief and €100 in damages against a website operator for providing the visitor's IP address to Google through the...