bfdi.bund.de

Context

BfDI (Der Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit) is the independent federal body overseeing GDPR compliance by Germany’s federal agencies, as well as by telecommunications companies. BfDI is the body that issues TDDDG guidance and rules on GDPR complaints at the federal level. HAR: 38 requests, 2 domains.

Zero analytics — an explicit policy stance

BfDI’s privacy policy states directly: “Techniken, wie zum Beispiel Java-Applets oder Active-X-Controls, die es ermöglichen, das Zugriffsverhalten der Nutzer nachzuvollziehen, werden nicht eingesetzt.” This is a declared rejection of any behavioral-tracking tools — not merely documenting an absence, but an explicit policy statement. There is no Matomo, no etracker, no Piano Analytics, no GTM in the HAR. Only session cookies are used, classified as technisch notwendig under § 25 Abs. 2 TDDDG — with no banner, which is correct for this category.

Source Sans Pro and Source Serif — not BundesSans

BfDI uses Source Sans Pro (Adobe Open Source) and Source Serif 4 — both hosted locally — instead of the standard state platform’s BundesSansWeb. This indicates that BfDI does not use the standard BUND-CMS platform operated by ITZBund, but manages its site through a separate CMS installation. Nonetheless, the principle of local font hosting is upheld.

social.bund.de — the only external domain

Like BMI, BfDI uses the state Mastodon server social.bund.de to display a feed of posts. One request — BfDI’s account avatar. State infrastructure, with no data transfer outside the state perimeter on page load.

Place within the German series

BfDI joins the reference-standard row of the German series. For a regulator whose function is to oversee GDPR compliance by other federal bodies, a zero result is the baseline expectation. dataprotection.ie (one request against one statement) and comreg.ie (the ePrivacy regulator with a 1299 ms gap before the banner), both from the Irish series, form a direct contrast. BfDI demonstrates what the DPC and ComReg failed to achieve: full compliance with their own standards.

Conclusion

bfdi.bund.de is the ninth zero result in the German series. Germany’s federal data protection regulator implements the principle of minimal data processing on its own site, explicitly declaring its rejection of behavioral tracking. This is not merely technical compliance — it is institutional consistency.