consentmanager.net Newsletter 12/2021

Hello Francisco J.,We're excited to announce the latest update that has gone live! Among  many new things, these are the most important features available with  the new update:

Cookiebot declared illegal

The German TTDSG law is only a few days old and the first ruling is already out: The cookie banner provider "Cookiebot" has been declared illegal by the Wiesbaden Administrative Court. The RheinMain University of Applied Sciences was sentenced here in an urgent procedure not to continue using the service.



Background: Cookiebot uses servers located in Europe, but since these servers belong to a US provider, the US Cloud Act applies. This allows US authorities to access the servers. Data that is stored on these servers is therefore not secure and Cookiebot therefore does not store this data in a GDPR-compliant manner. The use of Cookiebot is therefore ultimately illegal.

The verdict is groundbreaking and indirectly also affects other providers: In a first small test, we found US services in use at all important CMPs and cookie banner providers: Usercentrics, SourcePoint, OneTrust, Didomi, CookieFirst, Iubenda, CookieHub, CookieYes and others also use services such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Cloudfront, Akamai and other services from US companies. As a logical conclusion from the "Cookiebot judgment", the cookie solutions of these companies are also illegal.

However, nothing will change for consentmanager's customers: We have always relied on purely European providers without headquarters in the USA and without US parent companies. consentmanager is therefore not affected by the Cookiebot ruling.

Log4j - security hole?

A security hole in a widely used Java library called Log4j also caused a stir this month. A final check is currently still running, since we do not use any Java-based components at consentmanager, we are currently assuming that consentmanager's systems will continue to be secure and are not affected by this issue..

More features and changes

This month we have taken care of many small points from our roadmap. The most important concern the design settings, bug fixes for blocking, security functions, reporting and much more.