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**Is your feature request related to a problem?**
Decidim's current cookie banner is not compliant with the EU cookie laws. In several countries this could result into fines being made to the website owners.
Here is a little sum up of the things that we need to have in order to be compliant :
- By default, all optional cookies are disabled ( Matomo, Google, etc... )
- Cookies necessary for the platform must be mentioned and justified.
- The user must be able to revoke the acceptance of cookies at any time, in the footer or privacy policy or elsewhere, as desired.
- Block all cookies from external services by default (analytics, embeds etc.)
Currently we do none of these by default on the Decidim install.
**Describe the solution you'd like**
Implement an existing solution that allows us to do all these things. We've started a development on our end (https://github.com/OpenSourcePolitics/decidim/tree/feature/GDPR_compliance_update) but stumbled upon thanks to one of our clients on which provide a simple and acessible solution to this problem : https://github.com/empreinte-digitale/orejime it allows to :
- Set a default configuration with default Decidim cookies
- Update the default configuration according to the needs of the instance (Save in base a script that will be injected in the views...).
- Block the automatic setting of cookies from a third party platform.
We've identify 2 complexity factors :
- One related to the multi-tenant mode of Decidim. Different cookies could be set for each organization
- One related to external services such as embed (youtube), drag and dropped images from imgur and external services which can inject cookies that we would be co-responsible of.
**Describe alternatives you've considered**
Something should be done to make Decidim compliant to the cookie law
**Additional context**
None
**Does this issue could impact on users private data?**
Yes as user have to give their consent for each optional cookie.
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Could you elaborate which part of the Social Contract is violated by tracking cookies.
I think tracking cookies themselves are not harmful for the visitors if they are used in a fair way. Of course, e.g. what Google does with the tracking data, could be questioned, but even with Google it is possible to anonymize the tracking data of individual users. Even Google went ahead and made it possible to disable 3rd party cookies in Chrome.
I do still agree that this is a tricky issue to solve in a general way for all users in all countries. Some want/need to show popups and some want/need to show banners. Both of these options may have different functionalities depending on the context. E.g. according to some interpretations you need to have two equal buttons "Agree" or "Disagree" for the cookies.
Maybe the best way is the modular approach as Andrés mentioned but do we really need to solve this separately for every country? Or would this deserve a bit more discussion?
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