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Personal data within law enforcement is governed by special laws.

Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection has reviewed the so-called School Platform, the IT system used for, among other things, student administration of schools in the City of Stockholm. The review shows an insufficient level of security of such grave nature that the authority issues an administrative fine of four million SEK against the Board of Education in the City of Stockholm.

Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (DPA) has investigated a co-operative housing association’s use of video surveillance on its property. The DPA concludes that the association has gone too far when using video surveillance in the main entrance and the stairwell and when recording audio.

The Swedish DPA has issued an administrative fine of 35 000 EUR against Mrkoll.se – a website that publishes personal data of all Swedes above the age of 16 – for infringement of the Credit Information Act and the GDPR. The website has carried out credit information activity in a way that is not in compliance with the law.

Main rule: Anyone who collects a claim on behalf of someone else or claims that have been taken over for enforced collection must normally hold a licence issued by Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection.

One of the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is to protect individuals' fundamental rights and freedoms, particularly their right to protection of their personal data.

Below follows a description of what you should bear in mind when you process personal data in e-mail. The description is intended only as a guide and is not exhaustive. It is every organisation's...

Information security first and foremost involves preventing information from being leaked, distorted and destroyed. It also involves ensuring that information is to be available to the right people and at the right time. Information is not to be able to fall into the wrong hands and be misused. The data subjects are to know who is using their personal data and why.

Preventing risks before they occur.

All care providers are to follow up logs systematically, meaning that they are to log activities in the systems where the patient data is processed. The systems are to be designed to be able to che...