IMY

IMY is a so-called "enrådighetsmyndighet" ("enrådighet" within authorities means that the Director-General alone makes the decisions) with a transparency council that oversees the authority's work... Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection checks that laws and regulations are complied with. The checks that we make primarily concern the General Data Protection Regulation, the Camera Surveillance Act, the Credit Information Act and the Patient Data Act, but we are also the supervisory authority for a large number of other statutes on registers... We draw up our own statutes with general regulations and publish general guidelines with recommendations on various issues. When new laws and regulations are drafted, we check that personal privacy is protected effectively; every year we submit our opinion in a large number of consultative statements. We also review drafts of statutes, requests for comment from the council on legislation and government bills, and sit on expert commissions and..

Primary location: Stockholm Sweden