Told-you-so moment with Cookiebot

Today, the VG Wiesbaden announced to have prohibited the use of Cookiebot in summary proceedings of the Rhine-Main University of Applied Sciences (Az.: 6L 738/21.WI).1 The Danish provider behind Cookiebot is well-known in the industry and advertises with the windy promise of obtaining DSGVO-compliant cookie consent from website visitors. Complete humbug, as the court pointed out: Cookiebot processes the complete IP address of the end user on the servers of a company whose headquarters are located in the USA. This creates a third-country connection, namely to the USA, which is inadmissible in view of the so-called Schrems II decision of the European Court of Justice. The users of the website (…) would not be asked for their consent for data transfer to the USA. There was also no information about the possible risks associated with the transfer due to the so-called Cloud Act. Read more