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Technical audit · 2026-05-13

euaa.europa.eu

EUAA — the EU Agency Coordinating Asylum Policy
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The EU's asylum agency — 175 requests, 5 domains. Flourish transmits data to the USA with no consent. YouTube is embedded via webtools CRS — the European Commission's delayed-consent mechanism. A weak CSP.

Timeline of the leak

+255 ms · load
webtools.europa.eu — shared EU components.
+1456 ms · without consent
Flourish (public.flourish.studio) — Open Sans fonts for visualizations. IP address to the USA.
+7464 ms
europa.eu/webtools/crs/iframe?oriurl=youtube.com — YouTube via CRS. A delayed-consent mechanism.

Declared versus actual

+ Flourish (public.flourish.studio) — не заявлен

Transfer timings

+1456 ms public.flourish.studio

Flourish fonts. USA

+7464 ms europa.eu/webtools/crs

YouTube via the EC's consent mechanism

Detected trackers

Indicators of GDPR non-compliance

Context

The European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) coordinates the asylum systems of EU member states. It processes sensitive data on refugees and asylum seekers. Governed by Regulation (EU) 2018/1725. HAR: 175 requests, 5 domains. The session covered three pages.

webtools CRS — the right approach to YouTube

When a HAR records YouTube, it usually means a direct load with no consent. EUAA uses a different mechanism: europa.eu/webtools/crs/iframe?oriurl=youtube.com/embed/.... CRS — the Content Rendering Service — is a European Commission tool that intercepts embedding of external content and shows the user a consent prompt before YouTube loads. This is the correct architecture — the same principle as youtube-nocookie with lazy loading, but implemented centrally via webtools.

Flourish — the same problem seen at EBA

public.flourish.studio (+1456 ms) loads fonts for embedded visualizations — Open Sans Bold and Regular. As with EBA, Flourish transmits visitors’ IP addresses to American infrastructure with no consent. Datawrapper (a German, DSGVO-compliant platform) or a self-hosted solution would replace Flourish.

A weak CSP

Content-Security-Policy: report-uri /report-csp-violation — the policy contains only a report-uri directive, with no actual restrictions. This means the CSP is configured in violation-logging mode without any real blocking. In effect, the CSP does not function as protection.

Sensitivity context

EUAA coordinates the processing of data on refugees and asylum seekers — one of the most vulnerable groups. Information about who visits an asylum agency’s website can be sensitive in itself. Flourish, with no consent, transmits information about every visit to the USA.

Conclusion

EUAA uses webtools CRS for YouTube — the correct architectural choice, worth noting. Flourish with no consent and the absence of a functioning CSP are the two issues. Self-hosting Flourish’s fonts, or replacing it with a European visualization platform, would resolve the first.

Evidence
Original (audit)
HAR file: eu/euaa-europa-eu-2026-05-13.har
SHA-256: b2809e980a47f166832d7e94e0dc067d6c4b2d90c1760d2eff1dddb48c73cf60
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Awaiting changes
HAR files are stored on EU infrastructure (Proton Drive). SHA-256 is published for integrity verification.
IMPORTANT: before filing a complaint with the regulator, first contact the company directly and give it 30 days to respond. Without this step the regulator may reject the complaint. Details and a template letter to the company are in the Methodology.
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 euaa.europa.eu.

2. Circumstances
I visited the website euaa.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) Flourish (+1456 ms) loads with no consent — fonts and CSS from public.flourish.studio. Visitors' IP addresses go to Flourish's American infrastructure.

Full technical documentation is published at: https://gdpru.eu/en/audits/eu-euaa-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]