Dataskyddslagen

Dataskyddslagen is the Swedish name for the law that governs the processing of personal data. It aligns with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The primary aim of Dataskyddslagen is to protect individuals' fundamental rights and freedoms, particularly their right to privacy, concerning the processing of their personal data.

The law applies to all organizations, whether public or private, that process personal data. This includes collecting, storing, using, and disclosing information about identifiable individuals. Key principles under Dataskyddslagen include lawfulness, fairness, transparency, purpose limitation, data minimization, accuracy, storage limitation, and integrity and confidentiality. Organizations must ensure that personal data is processed in a manner that is legal, transparent, and for specified, explicit, and legitimate purposes.

Individuals have several rights under Dataskyddslagen, such as the right to access their data, the right to rectification of inaccurate data, the right to erasure (the "right to be forgotten"), the right to restrict processing, the right to data portability, and the right to object to processing. Organizations are obligated to inform individuals about how their data is being processed and to implement appropriate security measures to protect personal data. The Swedish Data Protection Authority (Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten) is responsible for supervising the application of Dataskyddslagen and can impose sanctions for non-compliance.