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GDPR: opt-in for user tracking required by german privacy officers #12849
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Hi, You can find a discussion about this topic on the forum: Matomo 3.5.0 supports a consent feature, so you can integrate an opt-in into your website: https://developer.matomo.org/guides/tracking-javascript-guide#asking-for-consent |
Thanks for the report. Our point of view is also that you can choose the lawful basis between Consent and Legitimate interest. We wrote an article here: https://matomo.org/blog/2018/04/lawful-basis-for-processing-personal-data-under-gdpr-with-matomo/ |
Are there any plans to support other languages for Opt-In/Out forms? |
The opt out iFrame should already be translated in nearly all languages supported by matomo. |
Thanks, I just saw the language parameter, sorry not sure how I missed it! |
we've also published the documentation in Asking for consent on the developer site. fyi: currently one needs to write the UI for the consent windows which uses the Matomo JS methods, and we will see how this evolves over the next few months. there will likely be some kind of standard consent windows solutions coming up, (including some recommended by GG in https://www.cookiechoices.org/intl/en/) which maybe we could integrate somehow in Matomo. |
The german privacy officers (department responsible to ensure that everybody follows privacy rules in germany) have decided at the Datenschutzkonferenz that they interpret the GDPR in such a way that website owners have to actively accept the tracking (opt-in). From their point of view this applies to all of the eu states.
https://www.datenschutz.rlp.de/fileadmin/lfdi/Dokumente/Orientierungshilfen/DSK_Positionsbestimmung_TMG.pdf
Point 9. on page 3 says
Translated it means something like:
TLDR: user trackers such as matomo must ask the user before collecting any data (opt-in)
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