The Federal Council wants to allow the administrative authorities of the Confederation, the cantons and municipalities, in General, you can identify citizens about their social security number, even if this identification has nothing to do with social security, do. A corresponding Change of the AHV-law is currently in the consultation process.
The data protection of the Federal government and the cantons in this project risks. You are welcomed at a media conference in Bern on Monday that the Federal Council intends to manage these risks. But they would have preferred a different approach.
For the data protectors would have been the better way, if the government had supported the amendment of the law on the national Council in the fall of 2017, in order given safety concept for personal identifiers. This is not, however, currently still.
Instead, the Federal Council wants to tackle the risks with the requirements for the privacy , and the obligation to “periodic risk assessment”, it means in common communication with the Federal data protection and information Commissioner (Edöp), as well as the conference of the Swiss data protection officer Privatim.
privacy for the national Council elections
In addition, the two institutions informed with regard to the election year of 2019 on your guide from December 2018. The document to consider in connection with the forthcoming elections to the national Council actors such as the parties, involved service providers or social networks to make digital effects on the voters will be transparent. Because data processing in a political context under a higher level of protection than commercial purposes.
The privacy advocates have called the new Schengen data protection law on the subject, the on 1. March enters into force. The new Federal law, and the analog adjustments, for example, allow data protection authorities of the Confederation and the cantons increased oversight of the police. The adjustments for the border guard and the police authorities of the Federal government were due to the lack of a law on Police on the level of Confederation, the “special challenges”.
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Created: 28.01.2019, 11:00 PM
