{"id":604,"date":"2019-02-15T20:18:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T19:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=604"},"modified":"2020-12-09T20:19:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T19:19:27","slug":"bavarian-data-protection-authority-identifies-deficits-on-website-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"Bavarian data protection authority identifies deficits on website tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The German Data Protection Conference (Datenschutzkonferenz DSK) has always had the opinion that consent for website tracking is required. In April 2018 they announced their position in a following paper (only in German available):<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ldi.nrw.de\/mainmenu_Datenschutz\/submenu_Technik\/Inhalt\/TechnikundOrganisation\/Inhalt\/Zur-Anwendbarkeit-des-TMG-fuer-nicht-oeffentliche-Stellen-ab-dem-25_-Mai-2018\/Positionsbestimmung-TMG.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.ldi.nrw.de\/mainmenu_Datenschutz\/submenu_Technik\/Inhalt\/TechnikundOrganisation\/Inhalt\/Zur-Anwendbarkeit-des-TMG-fuer-nicht-oeffentliche-Stellen-ab-dem-25_-Mai-2018\/Positionsbestimmung-TMG.pdf<\/a><br>&nbsp;<br>In this context, \u00a7 15 German Telemedia Act and article 47 GDPR are ignored. Nevertheless, so far, no fine has been imposed to examine this central issue for website operators.<br>&nbsp;<br>On Safer Internet Day on 5 February 2019, the Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision (BayLDA) examined websites with a large reach and found numerous deficits in tracking. According to the president of the BayLDA, all websites audited committed data protection violations when using the tracking tools.<br>&nbsp;<br>&#8222;For the companies responsible, our audit will have an after-effect. We have decided to remedy these shortcomings and to investigate the initiation of fine proceedings. We expect large companies in particular to be in a position to comply with legal requirements,&#8220; said the president of the BayLDA.<br>&nbsp;<br>The BayLDA also agrees with the equally exciting follow-up question as to whether &#8222;consent&#8220; in tracking means genuine GDPR consent (prior, voluntary, informed).<br>&nbsp;<br>Furthermore, the recently published new proposal to the ePrivacy regulation obviously assumes a consent requirement for tracking cookies, which however can be given more or less generalized.<br>&nbsp;<br>The consent requirement would have far-reaching consequences for website operators. We would be pleased to inform you about further developments in this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German Data Protection Conference (Datenschutzkonferenz DSK) has always had the opinion that consent for website tracking is required. In April 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=604\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}