On our own behalf: We are becoming more transparent and GDPR-compliant
The new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR for short) will come into force on May 25, 2018. This means more data protection on the Internet for you and at the same time more transparency on our part towards our readers. In the following on our own account, our changes for the new data protection regulation.
Data protection: These days it is no longer a matter of course on the Internet. Therefore a reason enough to ensure more transparency and protection of data on the web with the new data protection regulation. After the introduction of HTTPS at the beginning of 2017, we are again setting a good example here as a technology blog and have stood for a secure web from the start. We now dare to take the next step and become more transparent. In the future you will decide which data we are allowed to collect from you and which not. Lately we have been due for the new regulation on data protection TechnikNews worked hard - in addition to the changes in ours Changelog here is a rough summary of all the new features.
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Almost every website offers so-called "share buttons" for direct sharing of content, for example on Facebook and Twitter. That ProThe problem here is that the standard buttons from Facebook & Co. transmit data to the servers of the respective social network when you log in to their pages every time you visit a website with these buttons. In order to prevent this data exchange in the future despite not clicking these buttons, we are now setting Shariff from Heise on. In addition to a new display, these share buttons only send data to the servers of these social networks after they have been clicked. You are also welcome to test it, we assure you: Data is only transmitted after clicking on the respective button.
Opt-out from user tracking
We use the tool Matomo (formerly Piwik) and Google Analytics to find out more about our users. This includes visitor statistics, popular articles and provides information about our target group. However, we have been anonymizing your IP addresses in two places since the creation of this blog (example: 87.1.xx). Thus, we only know the approximate country of origin of your visit. However, if you still want to turn off this tracking, you will no longer need to complex scripts to block in the future. In the future we will offer the possibility to exclude you from visitor tracking. Click here for the opt-out page. With Google Analytics, this is not so easy from Google, but we have come up with a solution here as well. With a button you can now set a cookie, then tracking scripts from Google will no longer be loaded in the future.
The word cookies appears more and more often on the Internet. Almost every website now indicates the use and storage of cookies. We do it too. But what is it anyway? We think it is time not only to point it out, but to provide information about it. That's why we're now explaining on ours new cookie page in detail what these small files actually are that are stored on your own computer.
In addition, we describe the use of cookies on our website on this new overview page. What do we need cookies for? What do we do with it? Are They Really Necessary? We answer all of these questions in our cookie FAQ.
Have data deleted manually
Due to the new General Data Protection Regulation, every commercial website is obliged to delete the user's data upon request. So far we have also had this with corresponding Inquiries via email done - now it's easier. We have a new form to delete your data on the pages of TechnikNews set up. Be it just email that you have sent us, a chat with us via Telegram or a comment on our site - we will delete it. Simply fill out the form and we will take care of it.
This form will be expanded in the coming weeks - for example, in the future you will be able to receive the stored comments on our site by email. Deleting your own data will also become even easier.
Updated privacy policy
We have also revised all of our legal pages on our blog. While the imprint is now much clearer and more structured, we have completely updated the data protection declaration. In this, we have to explain in more detail, also prompted by the GDPR, which data we collect from you and which tools we use.
Despite a lot of new information, we have tried to present it in an understandable and clear manner on our data protection page. In short, it contains all the information that we otherwise transparently share with you - such as the use of tracking tools and the setting of cookies. Our data protection conditions are now also available with one click directly in the footer on all pages.
That was a rough compilation of our contribution for the new General Data Protection Regulation from the end of May 2018. Although a lot has happened in the background, these were the most important changes for you. With these changes we hope to have shown some examples for a more transparent data collection on the Internet and to be a good example for other side users. Together for a fairer web.
Good changes. However, your share buttons are not exemplary. You offer buttons without requests to ext. Servers, but also have a button for further services powered by AddThis.
Are you not serious? If someone clicks on it, they first send the data back to the USA. Sorry, but that belongs away.
I think it's great with the trackers, I plan to do the same on the blogs for my customers. There is still a lot of work to do, thank you EU!
Hi Frederik, your criticism is of course justified.
We will revise the buttons again accordingly in order to get by completely without AddThis in the future. However, we haven't seen any so far Proproblem: After all, you click on the button yourself (comparable to a link, which only sends the URL of the article) and no requests are sent to the AddThis server in the background anyway.
But as I said, that will be changed!
Thanks for the praise - it was also the easiest solution for us to do it that way!
Hold on, it'll be fine! 😉