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Whitepaper: Migrating from OneTrust to improve performance and reduce costs
Our new whitepaper walks through a structured migration from OneTrust to consentmanager: close visibility gaps, switch without rebuilding your tags, and cut consent management costs.
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Got a Google Fonts warning? Here’s how to counteract it
Currently, especially in Germany and Austria, there seem to be a few hundred free riders who have taken the “Google Fonts judgment” (LG Munich, judgment of January 20th, 2022, Az. 3 O 17493/20) as an opportunity to quickly save a few euros earn. In addition to purely private “warnings” that are sent by email, we…
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Important ruling: Provider “Cookiebot” violates data protection
UPDATE: This article was published on December 6, 2021. In the meantime, the decision of the VG Wiesbaden against Cookiebot was overturned by the VGH Kassel: However, not because the use of Cookiebot had now been declared lawful, but for purely procedural reasons (there was no urgency to issue an interim injunction and the court…
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GDPR, cookies and co – What you need to know in e-commerce!
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…
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Twitter and privacy?
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…
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YouTube and GDPR – Tips for using the video channel in compliance with data protection regulations
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…
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IAB TCF 2.0: Data protection-compliant use of cookies
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…
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ECJ judgment and cookie consent: solutions for legally secure data protection
Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force, you as the operator of a non-private website have to observe important data protection aspects. The question of how to deal with cookies was initially controversial. With its judgment (October 1st, 2019), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) made specific provisions regarding cookies with regard…
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PIPEDA – The Canadian General Data Protection Regulation
In this article we explain everything about the Canadian data protection regulation PIPEDA and the upcoming CPPA regulation. In the next article we will go into more detail about Cookies & Consent. What is PIPEDA? PIPEDA is the abbreviation for Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and refers to the new Canadian General Data…
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France: Penalties against Google, Amazon & Carrefour for wrong cookies
The French data protection authority CNIL has been very active in recent weeks and has imposed various penalties for incorrect description of cookies and data processing on websites of large companies. Here is a brief overview. Google – 100 million euros fine At the beginning of December 2020, the largest penalty to date was imposed…
