We’re excited to announce the following powerful new features in Concord:

• Advanced Scanning Controls
• Google Consent Mode (GCM) V2 Scanner
• Project Cloning
• Privacy Request Verification with Magic Links
• Google Policy URL Setting

Advanced Scanning Controls for Cookies and Scripts

Staying compliant requires full visibility into the tracking technologies running on your website — but manually monitoring every change can be time-consuming and error-prone. Concord has long set the standard with the most advanced scanning and detection engine in the industry for trackers (cookies, scripts, iframes, etc.). With this release, we’re giving you unprecedented control over how and when that scanning happens — so you can stay compliant with less effort, greater accuracy, and maximum flexibility.

What’s New

• Flexible controls: run scans on demand, on a schedule you choose, or in real time as users browse.
• Deep Scan mode: get maximum visibility during audits or stricter compliance checks.
• Smarter workflows: easily review and classify new trackers, with manual add options to fill any gaps.

Why It Matters

Automated scanning isn’t new at Concord — but advanced controls are. Because laws like GDPR require all trackers that process personal data (IP address, identifiers, behavioral data, etc.) to be blocked until consent, Concord’s multi-method scanning and blocking engine ensures you avoid the common pitfalls of basic cookie tools and non-compliant setups. By combining automated detection with easy review workflows, Concord minimizes the manual overhead of compliance while ensuring every tracker requiring consent is properly identified, categorized, and blocked until a user opts in.

The Result

A compliance-ready feedback loop: real-time and scheduled scans keep your list fresh, deep scans give you total coverage when you need it, and manual options let you spot-check or fill gaps on demand.

With Concord’s advanced scanning controls, you’re always one step ahead — with less work, stronger compliance, and full visibility into the tracking technologies on your website.

Read more here: https://www.concord.tech/docs/classifying-trackers-cookies-scripts

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Google Consent Mode (GCM) Scanner

Concord's new Google Consent Mode V2 (GCM) scanner helps validate your website's compliance with Google's Consent Mode V2 requirements. Google Consent Mode V2 scanning analyzes all domains in a project or individual URLs to detect Consent Mode implementation issues.

What is Google Consent Mode V2 Scanning?

Google Consent Mode V2 scanning validates your website's Consent Mode implementation by analyzing:

• Consent Mode Implementation: Checks if Google Consent Mode V2 is properly configured on your pages
  • Configuration Issues: Identifies missing or incorrect Consent Mode signals
• Default Consent States: Validates required ad_storage, analytics_storage, ad_user_data, and ad_personalization settings
  • Signal Updates: Verifies consent signals update properly after user interaction

Log in to your Concord and navigate to Deployment → Integrations → Google tab to check if Google Consent Mode V2 is setup correctly on your website.

Read more here: https://www.concord.tech/docs/gcm-scanning-user-guide

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Clone Projects

When setting up a new project in Concord’s Admin UI, users now have the ability to clone existing project settings. Benefits include:

• Save time by quickly selecting an existing project and cloning settings like branding, text overrides, and regional settings.
• Eliminate errors when configuring new projects by using existing settings.

For details on how to clone a project, visit our help document here: https://www.concord.tech/docs/managing-projects

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Privacy Request Verification with Magic Links

We’ve made enhancements to our privacy request (data subject requests or DSRs) process to make it even easier for customers to verify their identity when submitting requests. This release includes the following updates:

• Verification codes have been replaced with clickable magic links for privacy request verification
• Privacy request and email workflows were updated
• Language translations for new request workflows were added

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Other Fixes & Improvements

• Enable/disable the Google Policy URL option in Concord’s consent banner which includes the following work:
  • Google privacy policy enable/disable option was added at the region level under User Experiences → Consent Banner in the Admin UI (on by default when using Google Consent Mode V2 as recommended by Google)
  • Added support for the show google privacy policy option to the consent banner