eda.europa.eu
The European Defence Agency — 4 domains. A near-clean result: Google Fonts is the only external dependency transmitting data to the USA. The CSP mentions Typeform and Issuu — potential points of expansion on other pages.
Timeline of the leak
Declared versus actual
Transfer timings
Source Sans 3. IP address to Google, USA
Detected trackers
- Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com)
Indicators of GDPR non-compliance
- Regulation 2018/1725 Art. 5Google Fonts (+305 ms) loads with no consent. The visitor's IP address, on the website of an EU defense agency, is transmitted to Google (USA) on every page load.
Context
The European Defence Agency (EDA) is the EU’s agency for developing defense capabilities, military technology, and European cooperation in the defense sector. It coordinates PESCO (Permanent Structured Cooperation) programs. Governed by Regulation (EU) 2018/1725. HAR: 91 requests, 4 domains.
What the HAR shows
Four domains: eda.europa.eu, www.eda.europa.eu (a subdomain hosting publication images), fonts.googleapis.com, and fonts.gstatic.com. Zero trackers, zero Set-Cookie. Google Fonts is the only external dependency transmitting data outside europa.eu.
An interesting detail: one of the requests loads an image from a document on critical maritime PESCO infrastructure (pesco-critical-seabed-infrastructure) — the topic of the publication is visible directly in the HAR log.
CSP — potential points of expansion
The Content-Security-Policy permits frame-src for several external services: https://e.issuu.com/ (an American publishing platform) and https://form.typefo... (Typeform — an American forms platform). No requests to either are recorded in this session, but they may activate on other pages of the site. For an EU defense agency, these are points worth attention.
Cloudflare as a WAF
As with the Council of the EU — server: cloudflare. Network traffic passes through Cloudflare’s American infrastructure. This isn’t visible as an external request at the HAR level, but at the network level, visitor data passes through the USA.
Google Fonts — one fix needed
Self-hosting Source Sans 3 would eliminate the only recorded data transfer to the USA. The font is available on Google Fonts under the SIL OFL license — it can be downloaded and hosted on eda.europa.eu. One line of CSS.
Conclusion
The European Defence Agency is a near-ideal result. One external dependency at the HAR level: Google Fonts. Self-hosting the font would move the site into the green zone. The CSP points to potential external services on other pages — Issuu and Typeform — which are worth checking separately.
0edcdb2384ed9c70fce5abab24d1f39fb738afc7d497ac26c4d00d66b7ae4b42Where 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 eda.europa.eu. 2. Circumstances I visited the website eda.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) Google Fonts (+305 ms) loads with no consent. The visitor's IP address, on the website of an EU defense agency, is transmitted to Google (USA) on every page load. Full technical documentation is published at: https://gdpru.eu/en/audits/eu-eda-europa-eu/ 3. Provisions violated 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]