cor.europa.eu

The EU's Committee of the Regions — 6 domains. The Facebook SDK loads 6 times per session with no consent. Analytics run via webanalytics.op.europa.eu — the EU's own infrastructure. op.europa.eu serves as a widget platform.

Timeline of the leak

+220 ms · load

webtools.europa.eu — the standard set of EU components.

+10368 ms · without consent

Facebook SDK (connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js) — first appearance. No banner.

+20618 ms

op.europa.eu — Publications Office widgets. Search across EU publications.

+24012 ms

analytics.webanalytics.op.europa.eu — analytics via the EU Publications Office.

+27476 ms

cdnjs.cloudflare.com — Font Awesome 6.6.0. USA.

Indicators of GDPR non-compliance

Regulation 2018/1725 Art. 5

The Facebook SDK (+10368 ms) loads with no consent. Over a 4-page session, connect.facebook.net receives 6 requests. Every visitor's IP address is transmitted to Meta (USA) with no consent banner.

Regulation 2018/1725 Art. 5

cdnjs.cloudflare.com (+27476 ms) — Font Awesome, served from an American CDN. Data to the USA.

Context

The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is the EU’s advisory body representing the regional and local authorities of member states. It advises the Council of the EU and the European Parliament on matters affecting regions. Governed by Regulation (EU) 2018/1725. HAR: 203 requests, 6 domains, 4 pages per session.

The Facebook SDK — why?

connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js loads 6 times across a 4-page session — once per page, plus additional calls. This means the Facebook SDK is baked into the site template. CoR is an advisory body with no commercial activity. The Facebook SDK is typically used for “share” buttons, “log in with Facebook,” or a pixel. None of these scenarios require loading the SDK with no consent.

webanalytics.op.europa.eu — Publications Office analytics

analytics.webanalytics.op.europa.eu is the EU Publications Office’s analytics platform. Pan-European infrastructure for analytics, with data staying within europa.eu. The correct choice — unlike Frontex’s use of Google Analytics.

op.europa.eu — publication widgets

op.europa.eu is the EU’s Publications Office. CoR embeds an EU-publications search widget with its own Bootstrap, jQuery, jQuery UI, and Font Awesome — all served from op.europa.eu, with data on EU infrastructure.

cdnjs.cloudflare.com — Font Awesome, again

As with ENISA and ACER — Font Awesome served from cdnjs.cloudflare.com instead of being self-hosted. The same problem, the same fix.

Conclusion

CoR uses the correct analytics (webanalytics.op.europa.eu) and the correct widget platform (op.europa.eu). The Facebook SDK loading with no consent is the main issue. Self-hosting Font Awesome and either removing or correctly configuring the Facebook SDK would resolve both points.

Evidence

Original (audit)

HAR file: eu/cor-europa-eu-2026-05-13.har

SHA-256: 5b8d6640565d189ac2d78e781f04cf03b8d2775d31315db66cd81896f8d23c26

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: European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) — edps.europa.eu

To: European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)
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 cor.europa.eu.

2. Circumstances
I visited the website cor.europa.eu and found indications that the processing of my personal data does not comply with the GDPR. The technical analysis published on gdpru.eu on 13 May 2026 (open methodology, reproducible measurements) documents the following indications:

1) The Facebook SDK (+10368 ms) loads with no consent. Over a 4-page session, connect.facebook.net receives 6 requests. Every visitor's IP address is transmitted to Meta (USA) with no consent banner.

2) cdnjs.cloudflare.com (+27476 ms) — Font Awesome, served from an American CDN. Data to the USA.

Full technical documentation is published at: https://gdpru.eu/en/audits/eu-cor-europa-eu/

3. Provisions violated
Regulation 2018/1725 Art. 5; Regulation 2018/1725 Art. 5

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.

[Date]                                    [Signature / name]