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Technical audit · 2026-06-16

digitaleoverheid.nl

Portal of the Dutch Digital Government (Digitale Overheid)
NL

Policy changed — see what exactly · 2026-08-14 →

Digitaleoverheid.nl is the Dutch Digital Government portal, dedicated to the digitalization of public services and e-government infrastructure. Homepage scan: 29 requests, only 3 domains. The configuration is exemplary, one of the cleanest in the set. The only external service is the government's centralized web-statistics platform, Piwik PRO, running in anonymized mode. The policy explicitly confirms that the site can be browsed anonymously, and that the statistics tool pseudonymizes the IP address by zeroing out the last two octets, so that the visitor cannot be identified. The scan shows no Google Analytics, no Facebook, no advertising, no session recording, and no other third-party services. Not a single cookie was set during the session. No violations were recorded.

Timeline of the leak

2423 ms · government web statistics
The government's centralized web-statistics platform loads, built on Piwik PRO in anonymized mode. This is the only external service on the page.
2876 ms · pageview sent
The statistics tool sends pageview data without parameters tied to a visitor identifier, consistent with the anonymized mode described in the policy.
statistics anonymized, no cookie set
The policy explicitly states that the statistics tool pseudonymizes the IP address by zeroing out the last two octets, and that the visitor cannot be identified. The statistics tool is therefore exempt from consent. Not a single cookie was set during the session, and the site can be browsed anonymously.

Declared versus actual

✓ Government PIWIK statistics (anonymized) — declared

Detected trackers

Context

www.digitaleoverheid.nl is the Dutch Digital Government portal: information about the government-services digitalization program, standards, and e-government infrastructure. The data controller is the responsible government agency. The site is informational.

Scan: 29 requests to 3 domains, homepage, captured in a clean Edge browser without a VPN or ad blocker. The technical stack is extremely minimal.

Who receives the data

There are no third-party recipients.

The only external service is the government’s centralized web-statistics platform, built on Piwik PRO in anonymized mode. The scan shows no Google Analytics, no advertising networks, no social media pixels, no session recording, and no functional third-party services — only the site’s own domain and government statistics.

A full banner for the statistics is not required here, and the policy explains this explicitly: the site can be browsed anonymously, and the statistics tool pseudonymizes the IP address by zeroing out the last two octets, so that the visitor cannot be identified. This is consistent with an anonymized mode exempt from consent. Not a single cookie was set during the entire session.

Only anonymized government statistics. Before any interaction, the government’s centralized statistics fire, pseudonymizing the IP address. The scan contains no Google analytics, no advertising domains, no social plugins, and no session recording.

Conclusion

Digitaleoverheid.nl is one of the cleanest cases in the set. The only external service is the government’s anonymized web-statistics tool, and the policy explicitly describes exactly how the IP address is anonymized and that the site can be browsed anonymously. There is no third-party advertising, no Google analytics, no social media pixels, and no session recording whatsoever, no cookies are set, and there are no other third-party services on the page either. The key takeaway for the reader: a digital-government portal can manage with anonymized statistics alone, and here that is achieved with maximum cleanliness and backed by a transparent policy explaining the anonymization method. No violations were recorded.

Evidence
Original (audit)
HAR file: nl/digitaleoverheid-nl-2026-06-16.har
SHA-256: 1454c07adbcda841c57b1cbe52d3581e946c9ff7343b1fd877493cb5ab9a8c56
HAR files are stored on EU infrastructure (Proton Drive). SHA-256 is published for integrity verification.