Search results

Throughout your life, personal information about you is recorded. Whether you shop online, use social media, or sign up for an insurance policy, you leave behind personal information. This brings various types of risks, from harassment online to identity theft.

Personal data is any kind of information that can be linked to a living person.

We work to protect all your personal data, such as information about your health and finances, ensuring it is handled properly and does not fall into the wrong hands. Here you can read more about our mission and how we operate.

The Swedish Privacy Protection Authority (IMY) has done a supervision of a personal data incident at the Equality Ombudsman (DO). IMY concludes that the DO did not take sufficiently effective security measures and issues an administrative fine of SEK 100,000.

The Swedish Data Protection Authority (IMY) criticizes the Hospital Board in Region Uppsala, for not having taken sufficient security measures in connection with the processing of personal data about, among other things, health, in e-mail.

All businesses that handle personal data must comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This means, among other things, that you need to follow the fundamental principles, ensure that the processing has a lawful ground and inform the data subjects about how you handle their personal data.

Are you, as an employer, considering using video-surveillance of a workplace? Remember that all video-surveillance entails an infringement of privacy and that employees in general have a right not to be monitored at work. Therefore, you need strong reasons as to why it is necessary to monitor employees at their place of work. Here you will find out more of what rules apply.

If you carry out video-surveillance you need to provide information regarding the surveillance in an intelligible and easily accessible way. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) lists a number of requirements of what this information needs to contain.

The following is a brief description of what anyone interested in the use of video-surveillance must consider.

Preventing risks before they occur.