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The Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection often receives questions and reports concerning areas outside the scope of our operations. Here is a summary of the most common areas with details of the appropriate authority to contact.

Our vision is a society where personal privacy is valued and respected.

All processing of personal data must have lawful grounds under the regulation.

The GDPR states that both the data controller and the data processor are obliged to maintain a record or a list of instances of personal data processing.

The primary purpose of the Credit Information Act is to protect data subjects' personal privacy but the law is also to contribute to efficient provision of credit information.

Codes of conduct are meant to help ensure proper application of the General Data Protection Regulation's provisions by specifying how personal data may be processed in specific cases.

Our website is divided according to whether you are looking for information as an individual or as a representative of an organisation. Select one of the entries in the menu and you will see the information that applies to you.

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.

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 resp

A licence from the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection is normally required to operate credit reference activities. We decide on licences to operate credit reference activities only if the activities can be assumed to be carried on in a knowledgeable and judicious manner. Our evaluation is based on the type and scope of the planned activities.