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The FTC identified CookieInformation as one of 18 legitimate privacy tech firms

Karsten Rendemann · CookieInformation Hits $2m Bootstrapped For Easy GDPR Copmliance · Nov 5, 2020 · at 8:17

Karsten Rendemann, founder of CookieInformation, explains third-party technical validation for his company's consent management platform.

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“The federal trade commission did a study and tried to find out what companies have real tech within this area. And there was only 18. We're one of them.”

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The claim, plainly

A Federal Trade Commission study identifying companies with legitimate technology in the privacy area found only 18 companies, including CookieInformation.

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Assessment

A comprehensive review of published Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff reports, workshop summaries, commission reports, and enforcement records prior to November 2020 confirms that the FTC has never conducted a study identifying, ranking, or certifying commercial vendors of privacy or cookie compliance technology. The FTC does not maintain approved vendor registries, and the Danish company CookieInformation does not appear in any official FTC publication. The claim likely conflates an independent academic paper (Degeling et al., 2018/2019) that cited FTC background literature while listing consent management platform URLs in numbered footnotes, where cookieinformation.com appeared as footnote 18.

FTC public records and databases contain no studies benchmarking, evaluating, or certifying commercial vendors of cookie consent or privacy technology.
The FTC does not publish approved vendor lists or official registries certifying commercial software solutions.
The Danish company CookieInformation does not appear by name in any official FTC publication or study.

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[1] getlatka.com [2] youtube.com [3] ftc.gov [4] ftc.gov [5] ftc.gov [6] ftc.gov [7] getlatka.com [8] arxiv.org

site:ftc.gov "Cookie Information" site:ftc.gov "Cookie Information" OR "CookieInformation" "Karsten Rendemann" "Federal Trade Commission" OR "FTC" "Karsten Rendemann" "Cookie Information" OR "CookieInformation" site:ftc.gov "18 companies" OR "eighteen companies" "FTC" "CookieInformation" privacy study OR report "We Value Your Privacy ... Now Take Some Cookies" "cookieinformation"

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