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by kungito 1551 days ago
Can someone explain to me how GDPR makes you responsible for twitter collecting data? It's not your faukt if twitter has their own cookies... What matters is whi stores the data who in this case is not the person embedding twitter
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Quite simple. You just facilitated Twitter's data collection. Without you it would not have happened.

Even worse, the user loading your page could probably not have known you embedded a Tweet (and sent their data to Twitter) before actually loading the page (if you didn't implement a consent dialog with a reject option).

The user only has a business relationship with the website they visit. The website is responsible for the services it employs, just like any other general contractor is responsible for their subcontractors.