Bavarian DPA investigates Blood Donation Service for website tracking
The Bavarian Data Protection Authority (BayLDA) is currently scrutinising the website of the blood donation service of the Bavarian Red Cross as part of a focused data protection review.
The reason for this was the use of tracking tools on the website of the blood donation service. In particular, the BayLDA will look at whether sensitive data about the users’ health has been used by Facebook.
If tracking tools are used, quite a number of data protection requirements must be observed. This is not as simple as merely informing the user about the tracking tools in simple terms; the website operator must also ensure that they legally integrate the tracking tools, i.e. that a legal basis allows the integration or that the users have given their consent in advance.
