Eerstekamer.nl is the website of the Senate, the upper house of the Dutch Parliament. Homepage scan: 25 requests total, 4 domains. The configuration is exemplary. The Senate runs its web statistics on its own self-hosted Matomo engine, directly on its own subdomain, and, per explicit policy, anonymously — without cookies and without collecting personal data. Additionally, an accessibility text-to-speech tool runs. The scan shows no Google Analytics, no Facebook, no advertising, no session recording, and no third-party commercial trackers. Not a single cookie was set during the session. No violations were recorded.
Timeline of the leak
Declared versus actual
Detected trackers
- Self-hosted Matomo (anonymized, cookieless)
- ReadSpeaker (text-to-speech, functional)
Context
www.eerstekamer.nl is the website of the Senate (Eerste Kamer), the upper house of the Dutch Parliament: bills, sessions, membership, documents. The data controller is the Senate. The site is informational.
Scan: 25 requests to 4 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 Senate runs its web statistics on its own self-hosted Matomo engine, directly on its own subdomain, and, per policy, these statistics are anonymized — without cookies and without collecting personal data. Additionally, an accessibility text-to-speech tool runs. The scan shows no Google Analytics, no advertising networks, no social media pixels, and no session recording.
Was there a consent banner
A full banner for the statistics is not required here: it runs on the Senate’s own engine, is anonymized, sets no cookies, and collects no personal data. The policy explicitly confirms this. Not a single cookie was set during the entire session.
What fires before consent
Only anonymized in-house statistics and an accessibility tool. Before any interaction, the self-hosted Matomo statistics fire in anonymized, cookieless mode, along with the text-to-speech tool. The scan contains no Google analytics, no advertising domains, no social plugins, and no session recording.
Conclusion
Eerstekamer.nl is a model of a restrained configuration for a legislative body. Web statistics run on the Senate’s own engine, are anonymized, set no cookies, and collect no personal data, and aside from that, only an accessibility tool runs. There is no third-party advertising, no Google analytics, no social media pixels, and no session recording whatsoever. The key takeaway for the reader: a parliament can manage perfectly well with its own anonymized, cookieless statistics, and here that is achieved without a single third-party tracker, as explicitly confirmed by the policy. No violations were recorded.
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