Datenschutzgesetz (DSG)

Datenschutzgesetz (DSG), LGBl. 2018 Nr. 272, dated 4 October 2018, in effect 1 January 2019

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In force since 1 January 2019.

A comprehensive regime rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 24 August 2026.

What it requires

Establish a lawful basis under the DSG, mirroring General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Article 6, before processing personal data of a person in Liechtenstein, including data collected by crawling.
Treat the DSG, not the EU GDPR Regulation directly, as the controlling instrument for a person in Liechtenstein, since GDPR reaches Liechtenstein only through this Act's own EEA-incorporation mechanism.

What this law does

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Liechtenstein is not an EU member; it is an EEA/EFTA state, so the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) does not apply directly. GDPR was incorporated into the EEA Agreement by EEA Joint Committee Decision No. 154/2018, and Liechtenstein gave that incorporation domestic legal effect through its own Datenschutzgesetz (DSG), LGBl. 2018 Nr. 272, in effect 1 January 2019 together with the implementing Datenschutzverordnung (DSV) of 11 December 2018. The DSG, not the EU Regulation, is recorded here as the controlling instrument.

The Datenschutzstelle is Liechtenstein's national data protection authority. The DSG's own statutory text is not extractable from either channel located, gesetze.li serving a navigation-only page and the Datenschutzstelle's official English translation PDF an unparseable compressed structure, so article-level detail below rests on the Datenschutzstelle's own first-party glossary of GDPR-equivalent concepts, or is described only in general, structural terms.

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Read the law

gesetze.li official legislation database (navigation only, statutory text not extracted)
Datenschutzstelle official PDF translation (unparseable); Datenschutzstelle glossary, for the biometric-data concept only

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