Technical audit · 05.05.2026

lasteabi.ee

State Helpline for Children and Adolescents

A state helpline for children in crisis situations. Matomo fires at the zero-millisecond mark — no banner, no consent. The privacy policy is copied from the Social Insurance Board's website and mentions none of the actual data recipients.

Request timeline

+0 ms · on load
Matomo (matomo.tehik.ee) — the first request of the session. Analytics on the Estonian TEHIK server fires immediately, with no consent.
+408 ms · before consent
Google Fonts (fonts.gstatic.com) — the Jost typeface, 2 requests. The user's IP address to Google, USA.
Consent banner
Absent. Zero consent requests across a session lasting over 2 minutes.
+5175 ms · before consent
Siteimprove Analytics (siteimproveanalytics.com) — status 0, blocked. Cloudflare Insights (static.cloudflareinsights.com) — status 0, blocked.
+5176 ms · before consent
fonts.googleapis.com — fonts reload on navigation between pages.

Declared versus actual

✓ Siteimprove — mentioned in the policy (nmstat cookie) — declared
✓ Cloudflare (__cf_bm, _cfuvid) — mentioned as necessary — declared
✓ AddThis (__atuvc, __atuvs) — declared, but discontinued by Oracle in 2023 — declared
+ Matomo (matomo.tehik.ee) — not mentioned in the policy — not declared
+ Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com) — not mentioned — not declared

Transfer timings

+0 ms matomo.tehik.ee

The first request of the session. 4 times per session

+408 ms fonts.gstatic.com

Google Fonts Jost. IP address to the USA

+5175 ms siteimproveanalytics.com

Status 0. Wired in, but did not execute

+5364 ms static.cloudflareinsights.com

Status 0. Wired in, but did not execute

Detected trackers

Indicators of GDPR non-compliance

Context

lasteabi.ee is Estonia’s state helpline for children and adolescents, run by Sotsiaalkindlustusamet (the Social Insurance Board). The site serves children and adolescents in crisis situations: abuse, bullying, psychological problems, family conflicts. Infrastructure is hosted on TEHIK (Ministry of Finance) servers. HAR: 195 requests, 8 domains, a session lasting over 2 minutes with navigation between pages.

Matomo from second zero

The first request of the session — matomo.tehik.ee/piwik/matomo.js — is initiated at the zero-millisecond mark. Before any page content. Matomo runs on the TEHIK server — Estonian state infrastructure, which is itself better than Google Analytics. But firing analytics with no consent on a site intended for children in crisis is an indicator of non-compliance regardless of where the server is located. Matomo loads 4 times per session, on every page navigation.

Across a session lasting over 2 minutes, with multiple page navigations — zero consent requests, zero Set-Cookie responses. There is no banner at all. This is not a technical failure — it is an architectural choice.

Google Fonts

fonts.gstatic.com (+408 ms) — the Jost typeface, 2 requests on first load and again on every navigation. The user’s IP address is transmitted to Google (USA) on every page. For a child opening the site to seek help, this means Google knows about every one of their visits to the children’s helpline.

Siteimprove and Cloudflare — blocked

Siteimprove Analytics (+5175 ms) and Cloudflare Insights (+5364 ms) are wired into the code but return status 0 — they did not execute. This is partial protection, likely via a CSP or a blocker. The policy mentions Siteimprove (cookie nmstat) and Cloudflare (__cf_bm, _cfuvid) as necessary. Siteimprove was blocked — no data was transmitted in the HAR.

The policy is copied from sotsiaalkindlustusamet.ee

Every cookie in the policy is listed with the source www.sotsiaalkindlustusamet.ee — the Social Insurance Board’s website, not lasteabi.ee. An exact parallel to riigikontroll.ee, where the policy was copied from the Ministry of Finance. The policy declares AddThis (__atuvc, __atuvs) — a service discontinued by Oracle in May 2023. Matomo and Google Fonts — the actual data recipients — go unmentioned in the policy.

The GDPR Art. 8 context

GDPR Art. 8 establishes special requirements for processing children’s data. This site is addressed to minors in a vulnerable state — precisely those seeking help amid abuse or crisis. Processing their data with no consent and no special protective measures requires a separate legal justification, which the policy does not provide.

Conclusion

A state helpline for children fires analytics at second zero and transmits each child’s IP address to Google on every page navigation. There is no consent banner. The privacy policy is copied from another site and describes none of the actual data recipients. eesti.ee proves that a government site can operate with not a single external tracker. For a children’s helpline, that is not an option — it is an obligation.

Evidence

How to verify: download the file and compute its checksum — sha256sum file.har (Linux, macOS) or certutil -hashfile file.har SHA256 (Windows); it must match the one shown. The conclusions apply to the scope of this measurement — see the limitations of the method.

Original (audit)
HAR file: ee/lasteabi-ee-2026-05-05.har
SHA-256: 82f962cd2e6eac49c652091bbdcc247802467875b467b586241689089e35234c
Re-check snapshot
Awaiting changes
HAR files are stored on EU infrastructure (Proton Drive). SHA-256 is published for integrity verification.