Technical audit · 2026-04-12

transpordiamet.ee

Driver's Licenses, Vehicle Registration, Traffic Fines

The agency that runs the country's driving-license exam. A GTM container fires 0.68 seconds after loading — before any consent. The consent settings offer four categories, all pre-enabled by default: the user must actively uncheck each one to decline.

Timeline of the leak

+0.24 sec · before consent

Cloudflare Insights — analytics, USA. Followed by GTM (+0.68 sec): the container fires before the banner, data to the USA.

+0.86 sec · before consent

Google Analytics genuinely sends data to region1.google-analytics.com. browser-update.org (+1.37 sec) transmits browser and device data. All before any button is clicked.

Declared versus actual

✓ Cookie policy: general categories, no specific vendors — заявлен

+ Google Tag Manager — не заявлен

+ browser-update.org — не заявлен

Transfer timings

+0.24 sec static.cloudflareinsights.com

Cloudflare Insights, data to the USA

+0.68 sec www.googletagmanager.com

GTM — the container fires before the consent banner

+0.86 sec region1.google-analytics.com

Google Analytics

+1.37 sec browser-update.org

A third-party American service, absent from the policy

Detected trackers

Google Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Cloudflare Insights
browser-update.org
cdnjs.cloudflare.com

Indicators of GDPR non-compliance

GDPR Art. 6(1), Art. 5(1)(a)
Cloudflare Insights (+0.24 sec), GTM (+0.68 sec), Google Analytics collect (+0.86 sec), and browser-update.org (+1.37 sec) fire before any user consent.
GDPR Art. 7(3)
There is no equivalent 'Reject all' button — only 'Choose myself' and 'Accept.' Declining in one click is not possible.
GDPR Art. 7(4), Recital 32
A dark pattern via forced choice: clicking 'Choose myself' opens 4 categories, all pre-enabled (green toggle). To decline, one must individually toggle each one off — actively working against the default state, rather than simply accepting or rejecting.
GDPR Art. 13(1)(e)
Google Tag Manager and browser-update.org are not declared in the privacy policy.
GDPR Art. 13(1)(f), Chapter V
No transfer mechanism to the USA (Google, Cloudflare) is stated for any recipient.

Context

Transpordiamet is Estonia’s Transport Board: driving-license exams, vehicle registration, traffic fines, road safety. Nearly every driver in the country has to interact with this site sooner or later. HAR: 133 requests, 7 external domains.

Cloudflare Insights (+0.24 sec), GTM (+0.68 sec), Google Analytics (+0.86 sec), and browser-update.org (+1.37 sec) all fire before the user has clicked anything. Google Analytics genuinely sends data to region1.google-analytics.com.

The dark pattern of forced choice

The banner offers two buttons: “Choose myself” and “Accept.” There is no “Reject all” button — a violation of Art. 7(3). Clicking “Choose myself” opens 4 categories, all pre-enabled with a green toggle by default. To decline, the user must go through each category and manually uncheck it. This is different from koda.ee’s “consent by continued use” pattern — here, an active choice interface exists, but it is deliberately configured to steer the user toward the maximum-consent path: the default state does the opting in, and declining requires effort.

Conclusion

This is the same familiar template, replicated across another government site: browser-update.org, Cloudflare Insights, GTM before the banner. But the banner’s own construction is worth separate attention — a “Choose myself” option that offers a false sense of control while defaulting every category to enabled. For the site that runs the country’s driving exam, this is a small, avoidable technical debt.

Evidence

Original (audit)

HAR file: ee/transpordiamet-ee-2026-04-12.har

SHA-256: 7ab49c7d661840381aae6183bf74d24baf2f02c9ab780323280fafe9e8f5b196

Re-check snapshot

Awaiting changes

HAR files are stored on EU infrastructure (Proton Drive). SHA-256 is published for integrity verification.

Ready-to-send complaint letter

Where to file: Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate (AKI) — write to info@aki.ee

Important: AKI only handles submissions in Estonian. Translate the letter before sending.

To: Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate (AKI)
From: [Your name], [contact email]

1. Subject of the complaint
I am filing a complaint regarding the processing of my personal data by the website transpordiamet.ee.

2. Circumstances
I visited the website transpordiamet.ee and found indications that the processing of my personal data does not comply with the GDPR. The technical analysis published on gdpru.eu on 12 April 2026 (open methodology, reproducible measurements) documents the following indications:

1) Cloudflare Insights (+0.24 sec), GTM (+0.68 sec), Google Analytics collect (+0.86 sec), and browser-update.org (+1.37 sec) fire before any user consent.

2) There is no equivalent 'Reject all' button — only 'Choose myself' and 'Accept.' Declining in one click is not possible.

3) A dark pattern via forced choice: clicking 'Choose myself' opens 4 categories, all pre-enabled (green toggle). To decline, one must individually toggle each one off — actively working against the default state, rather than simply accepting or rejecting.

4) Google Tag Manager and browser-update.org are not declared in the privacy policy.

5) No transfer mechanism to the USA (Google, Cloudflare) is stated for any recipient.

Full technical documentation is published at: https://gdpru.eu/en/audits/ee-transpordiamet-ee/

3. Provisions violated
GDPR Art. 6(1), Art. 5(1)(a); GDPR Art. 7(3); GDPR Art. 7(4), Recital 32; GDPR Art. 13(1)(e); GDPR Art. 13(1)(f), Chapter V

4. Request
I request that you investigate the violations described and apply the measures provided for in Article 58(2) GDPR.

5. Attachments
The full evidence base — the HAR file, its SHA-256 checksum and the quotation from the site's privacy policy documenting the stated contradiction — is published and verifiable at the link in point 2 above.

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