The Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection's (IMY) role is to uphold the protection of personal data, monitoring that they are handled correctly and do not fall into the wrong hands.
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The Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection's (IMY) role is to uphold the protection of personal data, monitoring that they are handled correctly and do not fall into the wrong hands.
News
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The Hospital Board has failed in its security measures when handling e-mail
12 May 2025
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.
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Administrative fine against the Discrimination Ombudsman when personal data was collected via a web form
12 May 2025
The Swedish Privacy Protection Authority (IMY) has done a supervision of a personal data incident at the Discrimination Ombudsman (DO). IMY concludes that the DO did not take sufficiently effective security measures and issues an administrative fine of SEK 100,000.
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H&M has made it unnecessarily difficult to avoid marketing
19 October 2023
The Swedish Agency for Privacy Protection (IMY) has reviewed complaints concerning H&M and finds that the company has failed in its handling of requests from individuals who do not want to receive marketing from the company.