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Swiss Data Protection Law

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Data Protection in the Internet

Part of the book series: Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law ((GSCL,volume 38))

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The Swiss legislation on data protection is a combination of the laws of the Swiss Confederation, and individual Cantons. Additional revisions have been made to maintain Switzerland’s status as a country with an equivalent data protection level to that of the EU, especially in view of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Adherence to the EU policies and regulations is necessary for free personal data flow between Switzerland and EU Member States in an increasingly digitized and interconnected world.

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  1. 1.

    Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) OJ L 119 4.5.2016, p. 1.

  2. 2.

    For more details on the Swiss Bilateral Agreements with the EU see: Federal Department of Foreign Affairs https://www.eda.admin.ch/dam/dea/en/documents/folien/Folien-Abkommen_en.pdf.

  3. 3.

    For more information on the Protocols signed by Switzerland see: Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, European Convention on Human Rights, https://www.eda.admin.ch/eda/en/home/foreign-policy/international-organizations/council-europe/european-convention-human-rights.html.

  4. 4.

    Logistep BGE 136 II 508 and Patrick Breyer v. Bundesrepublik Deutschland, C-582/14, ECLI:EU:C:2016:779.

  5. 5.

    For more information on the European Data Protection Board see: https://edpb.europa.eu.

  6. 6.

    Swiss Civil Code, Art, 28 et seq. https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19070042/201801010000/210.pdf.

  7. 7.

    Draft Federal Data Protection Act, Art. 3(c), https://www.admin.ch/opc/de/federal-gazette/2017/7193.pdf.

  8. 8.

    Ibid., Art. 21.

  9. 9.

    Federal Data Protection Act, Art. 11a (5).

  10. 10.

    Draft Federal Data Protection Act, Art. 3 (h).

  11. 11.

    Google Street View decision A-7040/2009, https://www.bvger.ch/bvger/de/home/medien/medienmitteilungen-archiv-2002%2D%2D-2016/2011.html.

  12. 12.

    Federal Data Protection Act, Art. 12 and 13.

  13. 13.

    Federal Data Protection Act, Art 4(3).

  14. 14.

    For more details on the current state see the draft Federal Data Protection Act https://www.admin.ch/opc/de/federal-gazette/2017/7193.pdf and the parliamentary discussion https://www.parlament.ch/de/ratsbetrieb/amtliches-bulletin/amtliches-bulletin-die-verhandlungen?SubjectId=43570.

  15. 15.

    Draft Federal Data Protection Act, Art. 20.

  16. 16.

    See for example the European Data Protection Board, Preliminary Opinion on privacy by design, https://edps.europa.eu/sites/edp/files/publication/18-05-31_preliminary_opinion_on_privacy_by_design_en_0.pdf.

  17. 17.

    Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2002 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (Directive on privacy and electronic communications), OJL 201, 31/07/2002 pp. 37–47, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32002L0058:EN:HTML.

  18. 18.

    For more details ee: Datenschutzbeauftragter des Kantons Luzern, Merkblatt TelefonĂĽberwachung, https://datenschutz.lu.ch/-/media/Datenschutz/Dokumente/Publikationen/dsb_lu_merkblatt_telefonueberwachung.pdf?la=de-CH.

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Staiger, D.N. (2020). Swiss Data Protection Law. In: Moura Vicente, D., de Vasconcelos Casimiro, S. (eds) Data Protection in the Internet. Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law, vol 38. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28049-9_16

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