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by marcosdumay 1641 days ago
> conduit for establishing a TCP/IP connection

You mean an ISP? No, Akamai isn't an ISP.

Cookiebot is unambiguously using its own trustworthiness to let Akami access their users' personal data. There's nothing fuzzy or dubious here.

The only news is that what many people expected to be perfectly legal, that is doing that with a confidentiality clause and never having the data leave the EU actually wasn't, because of a different detail.
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kall 1641 days ago
It‘s a CDN, so it very well may be a "conduit". Maybe they offer edge computing services, I don‘t know. I‘m almost certain they don‘t offer data processing services though. They provide hosting-like services and process data in the normal course of that operation.

If I serve images from Akamai (or Cloudinary, FileStack…). Do you think that‘s problematic?

Do you think apple is is deceiving me when I download a song from iTunes?

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marcosdumay 1641 days ago
> It‘s a CDN

Yes, the GDPR has rules that very clearly apply to CDNs, hosting providers, and etc.

What is new is that Akamai breaks those rules. I don't know the situation of the other ones you cite.

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