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Personal Data Act (523/1999).

Main Region

First Region

Finland
Human rights
1999
National
Law, Act

Second Region

Henkilötietolaki
Provisions intended to protect the private life and other basic rights which safeguard the right to privacy. Deals with the processing of personal data (Chapter 2), sensitive data and personal identity number (Chapter 3), processing of personal data for special purposes (Chapter 4), transfer of personal data to outside the European Union (Chapter 5), data subject's rights (Chapter 6), data security and storage of personal data (Chapter 7), notification to the Data Protection Ombudsman (Chapter 8), and direction and supervision of the processing of personal data (Chapter 9).

Entry dates region

    Date of entry into force
    1999-06-01
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Amending Text region

Electronic region