EstoniaOfficial Statistics Act, confidential data and dissemination in non-identifying form (Sections 34 and 35)
Riikliku statistika seadus, RT I 2010, 41, 241, §§ 34 and 35
In force since .
A de-identification rule binding government bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are a producer of official statistics, disseminate the data collected for official statistics only in a form that rules out direct or indirect identification of the statistical unit, unless the Official Statistics Act provides otherwise (Section 35(1)).
- Use confidential data, meaning data that allow a statistical unit to be identified directly or indirectly, only for statistical and scientific purposes (Section 34(1^1)).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What record it asks for
Logging duty
Sections 34 and 35 limit the use and dissemination of confidential data. They state no duty to create, keep or produce a log or record.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 8(1) of the Riikliku statistika seadus (Official Statistics Act) names Statistics Estonia and, to the extent set by section 34(1) of the Bank of Estonia Act, the Bank of Estonia as the producers of official statistics. Section 34(1) makes data that allow a statistical unit to be identified directly or indirectly, and so allow individual data to be disclosed, confidential data.
Section 34(3) treats a statistical unit as indirectly identifiable when it can be identified from other data, taking into account all the means a third party can be expected to use. Section 34(1^1) bars the use of confidential data for any purpose other than statistical and scientific purposes.
Section 35(1) requires a producer of official statistics to disseminate the data collected for official statistics only in a form that rules out direct or indirect identification of the statistical unit, unless the Act provides otherwise.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app processes personal data or processes de-identified data.
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