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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.

You can submit a whistleblower report to IMY if you have information that the organisation you currently work for, have previously worked for or have applied to work for, is violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or supplementary national legislation like the Data Protection Act.

Here you can read more about, and notify personal data breaches, according to the Criminal Data Act.

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Law enforcement authorities shall carry out an impact assessment before any new type of processing of personal data or if there have been significant changes to ongoing processing of personal data. This is only necessary if the processing is likely to result in a specific risk to the privacy of the data subject.

If you believe that a credit reference agency has information about you in its records that is incorrect or misleading, you can contact the agency and ask for a correction.

In January 2025, the Swedish Agency for Digital Government (Digg) together with the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY) launched guidelines to encourage the use of generative AI in public administration. The purpose of the guidelines is to enhance the ability to use generative AI in a safe, ethical and efficient way.