
On 19 November 2025, the European Commission published the Digital Omnibus proposal. It is designed to simplify and align parts of the EU digital rulebook, including updates that affect GDPR, cookie consent, incident reporting, and AI-related topics. This is not law yet. The text is still at an early stage and can change during negotiations.…

Data protection has always been a hot topic in the business world, but GDPR, cookies and other topics have been mandatory reading for entrepreneurs since May 25th, 2018. Regardless of whether you operate e-commerce, offer a blog or even a complete platform is your product – ruinous penalties are threatened if data is not handled…

The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been in force since May 25, 2018. It has a major impact on data protection in the online area. This applies to websites and online shops as well as social media. The Facebook pixel cookie is also affected by the EU data protection reform, which defines complex…

Legally secure measures and cookie consent Matomo (formerly Piwik) is an open source project. As an alternative to Google Analytics, Matomo offers website analysis tools that are used to record the activities of your visitors. Matomo uses cookies of various types for this purpose. In order to make Matomo GDPR compliant, a Matomo Cookie Consent…

This should be ‘tweeted’ to you via consent management The up to 280 characters that were typed with the good old SMS just a few years ago are now being tweeted more and more often: This is the only way to explain that the successful American microblogging service Twitter has almost 330 million active users…

On November 10, 2021, our webinar on the topic of using consentmanager with Google Tag Manager & Google Consent Mode took place. We have dealt with the following topics, among others: You can download the PDF for the webinar here . What is Google Tag Manager?Google Tag Manager is an efficient tag management system that…

Our webinar on TDDDG & current developments in data protection took place on November 9, 2021. We have dealt with the following topics, among others: The PDF for the webinar can be downloaded here . TDDDG in brief:The abbreviation TDDDG stands for Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (originally Telecommunications Telemedia Data Protection Act, TTDSG)…

Many companies have recognized the importance of social media for the effectiveness of their online marketing. According to the motto “a picture (or a video) says more than 1000 words”, Instagram and YouTube in particular are used alongside the classic Facebook. If you also use YouTube as a corporate channel and perhaps want to collect…

Use Google Tag Manager GDPR compliant – What is the legal situation? This article informs you about how the Google Tag Manager works, the legal relationship to the GDPR and viable cookie consent solutions. Google Tag Manager and cookies – this is how the tool works The Google Tag Manager serves as a tool for…

Since the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in 2018 and also with the upcoming E-Privacy Regulation, website providers are obliged to obtain the consent of the visitor : Only then may cookies be set, which, among other things, monitor the surfing behavior of the user and analyze. Users of the website…

Webinar on June 2nd, 2021 The GDPR law forms the legal basis for consent management. Consent for tracking, in particular through permission in cookies, has become standard, but: You can download the PDF for the webinar here . Articles on similar topics: