Germany's federal job and public services portal, operated by the Bundesverwaltungsamt (BVA). 27 requests, 1 domain. GSB platform. Fonts via the system font stack. No cookie banner — only technically necessary session cookies (JSESSIONID), no consent required under § 25(2) TDDDG. The CSP permits geodatenzentrum.de (BKG) for maps — inactive in the HAR. Set-Cookie — zero. Not a single external domain.
Timeline of the leak
Declared versus actual
Context
service.bund.de is a federal portal operated by the Bundesverwaltungsamt (BVA, the Federal Office of Administration, Cologne). It aggregates job openings and tender notices from federal, state, and municipal authorities. GSB platform, Apache. HAR: 27 requests, 1 domain.
A minimalist architecture with no external dependencies
All 27 requests go exclusively to www.service.bund.de. The stack is GSB (Gemeinsames Servicezentrum der Bundesbehörden): standard CSS bundles, three local JS files. Fonts are drawn from the browser’s system font stack — there are no woff/woff2 files in the HAR. Icons for partner-portal teasers (GovData, D115, Geoportal, juris, etc.) are hosted locally. Leaflet.css is present as the styling for maps used on internal pages — no map tiles loaded on the homepage.
Permissions-Policy — an explicit restriction on browser APIs
The Permissions-Policy header explicitly disallows access to camera, geolocation, gyroscope, magnetometer, microphone, payment, usb, and interest-cohort (FLoC). The last item is a deliberate signal rejecting behavioral profiling at the browser API level.
BKG — federal cartography instead of Google Maps
The CSP includes img-src *.geodatenzentrum.de — the source for map tiles from the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG). The privacy policy explains that when a map loads, the IP address is transmitted to BKG solely for protection against cyberattacks, with no further transfer. There are no requests to geodatenzentrum.de in the homepage HAR — the map was not displayed.
Cookies with no banner — by law
The policy declares only JSESSIONID — a session cookie for server load balancing. Legal basis: § 25 Abs. 2 Ziffer 2 TDDDG (technically necessary cookies, no consent required). Set-Cookie — zero in the HAR: a cookie is set only during active sessions (logging into the personal account, subscribing to the newsletter).
Conclusion
www.service.bund.de does not transmit visitor data to third parties. One domain, no external SDKs, no trackers, no cookie banner — and none is needed, since only technically necessary session cookies are used. No GDPR violations recorded at the time of the audit.
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