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Organisation

Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY) has about 140 employees, most of whom are lawyers. Our organisation reflects our areas of operations and the way we work.

Our units

David Törngren
E-mail: david.torngren[at]imy.se

Phone: 073-532 48 16

Areas of responsibility

  • that the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection’s regulations and decisions are legal, consistent and uniform
  • legal support for the activity
  • EU cooperation and other international work

Deputy head of Unit

Cecilia Agnehall

Data Protection Officer

Sigrid Bohnfeldt Boje, dso[at]imy.se

Areas of responsibility

  • Strategic management and development

Deputy head of Unit

Carin Sundhage


The Department for Enterprise

Head of department:

Malin Blixt

Areas of responsibility

The unit is responsible for questions about data protection and personal data processing within

  • Private activities that relate to information about customers and members and that do not relate to healthcare, camera surveillance, education or research.
  • Questions relating to licensing and supervision according to the Credit Information Act. 

Head Of Unit

Catharina Fernquist

Areas of responsibility

The unit works with national supervision based on complaints against private activities that do not relate to health and social care, working life, camera surveillance, education or research.

Head of unit

Nidia Nordenström

Areas of responsibility

  • Supervision based on complaints against private activities that do not relate to healthcare, working life, camera surveillance, education or research
  • Cross-border supervisory activities within the framework of EU cooperation
  • Collaboration with certain Swedish authorities with related responsibilities, such as the Swedish Post and Telecommunications Agency, the Swedish Competition Authority and the Swedish Consumer Agency.

Head of unit

Albin Brunskog

 
 
 

Responsibility for coordination

  • Information Security
  • The Authority's Supervision Process

Deputy Head of Unit

Malin Blixt

Areas of responsibility

  • Answers written questions and provides guidance by telephone
  • Receives and handles complaints within, among other things, GDPR and camera surveillance
  • Holds educations and lectures
  • Handles notifications of personal data breaches 

Head of Unit

Eva Bergholm Guhnby


The department for Public Operations

Head of department: Charlotte Waller Dahlberg

Areas of responsibility

  • The Camera Surveillance Act
  • Permit examination
  • Complaints
  • Supervision

Head of unit

Jenny Bård

Areas of responsibility

The unit is responsible for questions about data protection and personal data processing linked to the areas:

  • All public activities except those within the judiciary and defence, as well as the Swedish Migration Agency
  • Private activities relating to health care, education and research
  • Working life issues for both public and private businesses

Head of unit

Linn Sandmark

Areas of responsibility

The unit is responsible for questions about data protection and personal data processing linked to the areas:

 

  • All public activities except those within the judiciary and defence, as well as the Swedish Migration Agency
  • Private activities relating to health care, education and research
    Working life issues for both public and private businesses
  • The authority's external whistle-blowing reporting channel

Acting head of unit

Linn Sandmark

Areas of responsibility

  • Law enforcement
  • Judicial operations
  • Prisons and probation
  • Defence and foreign intelligence activities
  • The Swedish Migration Agency

Responsibility for coordination

  • Personal data officers

Head Of Unit

Jonas Agnvall

 

The department for Operational Support

Head of department: Per Appelqvist

Areas of responsibility


• IT
• Digitalization
• Security
• Total Defence and Emergency Preparedness
• Crisis Management


IT and Security Manager


Joakim Nyberg (including Protective security manager)

Areas of responsibility

  • Registry and post

  • Archive and information management

  • Administrative support to director-general and other units

  • Office administration

  • Property management

  • Reception

Head of Administration

Marita Öberg

Areas of responsibility

  • Economy
  • HR
  • Purchasing and Procurements

Deputy Head of Unit

Ingela Johansson

Areas of responsibility

  • Internal and External Communication
  • Media and Public Relations
  • Education
  • External analysis

Chief Communications Officer

Annicka Nordlander

Phone: 076-311 15 11

 

IMY:s transparency council

IMY is a so-called "enrådighetsmyndighet" ("enrådighet" within authorities means that the Director-General alone makes the decisions) with a transparency council that oversees the authority's work. The transparency council has the following members:

David Törngren
IMY's Deputy Director-General,
chair of the transparency council since January 2024

Peter Hedberg
Member of Parliament (s)

Åke Holmgren
Head of department Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency

Linn Kempe
General Counsel Agency for Digital Government

Jonas Ledendal
researcher senior lecturer Lund University

Kristoffer Löfblad
Member of Parliament (sd)

Simona Mohamsson
The Liberals

Susanne Nordström
Member of Parliament (m)

Ari Stenman
Head of Security, The Swedish Police  

About the information on this page

If the information in English is different from the Swedish version of this page, the Swedish version applies.

Latest update: 22 January 2024
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