Insights on the EDPS Website Compliance Awareness Campaign (WCAC)

This meeting is your opportunity to learn about online tracking and the data collected and presented in the reports produced by the EDPS Website Evidence Collector tool. This training is relevant for website administrators, business managers, project managers, developers, data protection officers/correspondents and any person concerned about websites’ privacy.

Here’s what you can expect from this session:

In 2019, the EDPS developed and published under an open-source license its Website Evidence Collector (WEC) tool. This tool allows its users to collect evidence about websites’ components, use of encryption and use cookies and similar technologies. In July 2024, the EDPS deployed the WEC Online service. This service is based on the Website Evidence Collector tool, has a web interface and is accessible from the corporate network.

In spring 2024, the EDPS launched the pilot phase of its Website Compliance Awareness Campaign (WCAC) to help EU institutions, bodies, offices, and agencies (EUIs) improve their websites’ compliance with Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 (EUDPR). The pilot campaign employs the WEC tool to periodically gather data from around 70 EUI websites. Each EUI receives a report on its own website, including elements such as the websites’ use of cookies, potential web beacons or HTML local storage objects. 

We will begin the session with a brief introduction to how the World Wide Web and online tracking work and provide a quick overview of the Website Compliance Awareness Campaign. We will then present the reports produced by WEC, explaining what different elements included in the report mean and how to interpret them in the context of a website compliance check. 

Contact email: EC-OPENEUROPALIBRARYec [dot] europa [dot] eu (EC-OPENEUROPALIBRARY[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu)