Digital Omnibus: Overview and impact on digital compliance
On November 19, 2025, the European Commission published its proposal for a Digital Omnibus Regulation. The proposal suggests clearer rules for cookie banners, fewer repeat requests after rejection, and increased use of browser preference signals. We have summarized the most important points in our article.
Read about it here:
https://www.consentmanager.net/en/knowledge/legal/digital-omnibus-gdpr-guide/
IAB TCF v2.3: Key updates and action steps
IAB Europe has released TCF v2.3. The main change from v2.2 is a mandatory “Disclosed Vendors” section in the TC string, designed to make it clearer whether a vendor was actually shown to a user. consentmanager clients can already activate TCF v2.3 in the CMP dashboard. Our article below breaks down what changed and how you can prepare for the upcoming deadline.
Read more about it here:
https://www.consentmanager.net/en/knowledge/iab-tcf-2-3/
EDPB’s enforcement focus for 2026: Transparency obligations in the spotlight
The EDPB has confirmed that its coordinated enforcement action in 2026 will focus on GDPR transparency obligations (Articles 12–14). In practice, this means regulators across Europe will take a close look at how clearly publishers, websites and platforms explain what data is collected, how tracking works, and how advertising and partner data sharing are presented to users. Now is a good time to review your privacy policy and cookie banner/CMP layer to ensure the language is clear, purposes and vendor descriptions are consistent.
Read the official announcement here:
https://www.edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2025/coordinated-enforcement-framework-edpb-selects-topic-2026_en
CJEU ruling: Newsletters can count as direct marketing in certain cases
A recent CJEU ruling (Inteligo Media, C-654/23) clarifies that a newsletter can qualify as direct marketing under the ePrivacy Directive even if it appears “informational,” especially where it effectively promotes paid content. That means the ePrivacy email rules apply: you’ll generally need prior opt-in consent (unless the soft opt-in exception applies), and you must always provide a clear, free unsubscribe option at sign-up and in every email.
Read the official ruling here:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:62023CJ0654
Merry Christmas!
2025 was an exciting year. We expanded our compliance suite with new solutions such as the Compliance Monitor and the Accessibility Widget. In addition, our collaboration with iubenda has grown even stronger. We look forward to seeing what the new year will bring!
Before welcoming 2026, we would like to express our sincere thanks to our loyal customers, partners and readers. Hopefully we’ll see you in person at one of our offline events next year!
Have a relaxing Christmas and a great start to the New Year!
Your consentmanager team
Further optimizations and adjustments in December
- Further new features and optimizations can be found in the complete release log:
- Fix: Delete vendors not working
- Improved: Extend app monitor for ios / ipa files
- Improved: Extend autoblocking type listener to module
- Improved: Allow Manual Resolution/Dismissal of Crawler Issues in Monitoring
- Improved: Extend compatibility mode options
- Improved: SDK / Keep users from zooming in the consent layer
- Improved: Extend __tcfapi() for checkConsent
- Improved: Possible HAR crawl import
- Improved: Global rights view all/edit all
- Improved: Privacy policy settings
- Improved: Controller settings
- Fix: Design editor warning
- Fix: Through wizard added IAB vendors not having “Automatic assignment” in purpose
- Fix: Reseller: Issue login to account
- Fix: Reseller: Main user account cannot edit shared designs
