Came across a site offering GDPR compliance tools — and it drops tracking cookies without consent. No cookie banner. No opt-out. No visible privacy policy. Just silent data slurping.
Under GDPR (Articles 6, 7, 13) and the ePrivacy Directive, this is a textbook violation: consent must be informed, explicit, and prior. Even worse, the site’s entire pitch is about compliance and information security management. Hypocrisy aside, this could expose clients to regulatory risk if they’re trusting this vendor.
If your security tool breaks privacy law by design, what exactly are you securing?
AnBouch•6mo ago
Hey, thanks for flagging this Oasnjdskjdn.
Indeed, we are not GDPR compliant. This explains why we don't have a cookie banner. I understand the confusion as this is something we offer to our customers.
In any case, we have cookie & privacy policies with an updated subprocessors list (and a security page) that you can check in our footer.
I understand your worries about privacy - we are fully OSS, you can inspect everything and check what we are tracking (our landing page is here: https://github.com/getprobo/getprobo.com)
oasnjdaskjdn•7mo ago
Under GDPR (Articles 6, 7, 13) and the ePrivacy Directive, this is a textbook violation: consent must be informed, explicit, and prior. Even worse, the site’s entire pitch is about compliance and information security management. Hypocrisy aside, this could expose clients to regulatory risk if they’re trusting this vendor.
If your security tool breaks privacy law by design, what exactly are you securing?
AnBouch•6mo ago
Indeed, we are not GDPR compliant. This explains why we don't have a cookie banner. I understand the confusion as this is something we offer to our customers.
In any case, we have cookie & privacy policies with an updated subprocessors list (and a security page) that you can check in our footer.
I understand your worries about privacy - we are fully OSS, you can inspect everything and check what we are tracking (our landing page is here: https://github.com/getprobo/getprobo.com)