LG Rostock - 3 O 762/19
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The LG Rostock held that tracking cookies can only be placed with the user's active consent. A preset permission that is only to be confirmed via an "OK" button is not sufficient. The controller appealed, the decision is not (yet) in force.
English Summary
Facts
The German consumer organisation Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände - Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V. (vzbv, the plaintiff) filed a lawsuit against advocado GmbH (advocado, the defendant), a German-based company that runs an online platform where attorneys can offer their services. The defendant's website had used a cookie banner with preticked boxes for the use of marketing and analytics cookies. This included the use of tool such as Google Analytics that entail a data transfer to third countries.
The plaintiff argued that the data processing in connection with the placed cookies was unlawful under Article 6(1) GDPR: A user's consent under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR could not be considered valid under Article 7 GDPR, especially since the boxes were pre-ticked. Morover, the plaintiff claimed that the defendent had violated Articles 5(1)(a), 13/14 and 26/28 GDPR as it had failed to properly inform users of the scope of intended processing activities in connection with the use of cookies.
The controller stated that it had based the use of cookies on legitimate interests under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR until the CJEU issued its decision C-673/17 on 01.10.20219. Afterwards the defendent argued to have changed the legal basis for processing to consent under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR.
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Please note that the decision is not (yet) in force, as the controller filed an appeal with the OLG Rostock at which the case is now pending. Therefore the decision is not officially published but only presented on the plaintiff's website, where one can download the (redacted) decision. Once the OLG Rostock has issued its decision, it will be linked here.
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The decision below is a machine translation of the German original. Please refer to the German original as published on the webiste of the vzbv for more details. Please also note that below translation might be incomplete as is was created from a PDF document not readable in MS word.
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A preset permission that should only be confirmed with an "OK" button is not sufficient. This was decided by the Rostock regional court after a lawsuit filed by the Federation of German Consumer Organizations (vzbv) against the lawyer search service advocado.</strong></p><p> "Consumers must be able to consciously decide whether and which companies they allow tracking of their surfing behavior and commercial use of their data," says Rosemarie Rodden, legal advisor at vzbv.</p><h3> Consent to cookies was already checked</h3><p> With a so-called cookie banner, advocado wanted to obtain permission to store various cookies on the user's device. These included cookies from third-party providers that are used to transfer personal data to third parties and to track user behavior beyond the website for advertising purposes.</p><p> This is permitted - as both the ECJ and the Federal Court of Justice have already ruled in proceedings by the vzbv against the competition provider Planet49 - only with the prior, informed consent of the user.</p><p> However, the visitors to the advocado website did not have a real choice. The users should agree to the use of all cookies by clicking the "OK" button. Because in addition to the cookies necessary for the operation of the site, those for "Preferences", "Statistics" and "Marketing" were firmly ticked.</p><p> The Rostock Regional Court agreed with the vzbv that the pre-assignment of all cookies selected by the provider did not meet the requirements for informed and voluntary consent.</p><h3> Effective consent not obtained even with a new cookie banner</h3><p> In another cookie banner used by advocado, all cookies were preselected under the link "Show details". When the cookie banner was redesigned, users had the option of only allowing necessary cookies. The judges complained, however, that the corresponding button optically takes a back seat and is not recognizable as a clickable button. The consent given by clicking the green button “Allow cookies” could not be validly given.</p><h3> Advocado must adhere to the GDPR</h3><p> The district court further ruled that advocado must provide the correct justification for the transfer of personal data to third countries in the data protection declaration. In the view of the judges, the use of “Google Analytics” cookies also means that data is processed jointly with Google, so that advocado must provide users with the essential points of the agreement with Google.</p><p> The legal dispute has not yet been finally decided. advocado has appealed against the judgment to the Rostock Higher Regional Court.</p><h3> Legal clarity urgently needed</h3><p> From the vzbv's point of view, this case again shows how urgent a legally clear regulation on the use of cookies for advertising and analysis purposes would be. However, the member states in the Council of the European Union have not been able to agree on a common position on the ePrivacy Regulation for years.</p><p> At the same time, the federal government is working on implementing the old ePrivacy directive in German law. The vzbv calls on the federal government not to deviate from the European requirements again when implementing the old ePrivacy Directive in German law. Because such deviations from the implementation led to the current legal chaos in Germany in the first place.</p><p> <em>Judgment of the LG Rostock from September 15, 2020, Az. 3 O 762/19 - not final</em></p></div></div></div><div class="field-name-field-downloads"><div class="field-label"><h3> <span>Downloads</span></h3></div><div class="field-items"><div class="download-link"> <a href="https://www.vzbv.de/sites/default/files/downloads/2020/11/25/lg_rostock_15.09.2020.pdf" target="_blank"><span class='vzicon vzicon-download'></span>Judgment of the Regional Court of Rostock of September 15, 2020, Az. 3 O 762/19 - not legally binding</a> <small>Judgment of the Regional Court of Rostock of September 15, 2020, Az. 3 O 762/19 - not binding</small></div><div class="meta"> <label class="file-attributes"><span class="file-type">pdf</span> <span class="file-size" data-bytesize='7990377'>7.62 MB</span></label> </div></div></div><div id="node-press-release-full-group-additional-info" 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