Cookiedatabase.org is a standardized repository and documentation engine dedicated to the identification and classification of web tracking technologies, including cookies, pixels, and local storage.
The service provides insights into the function and purpose of tracking scripts, categorizing them into functional, statistical, and marketing domains to facilitate regulatory compliance. It features “Data Passports” for thousands of third-party services, detailing specific data points collected, legal processing grounds, and retention policies, all moderated by a collaborative network of IT and legal experts.
Very convenient to identify a cookie by its name, when an obscure string pattern is used. But then not much more precise information is given, except to confirm that major actors track as they wish (“Data is processed in countries without a suitable level of data protection“).
