SwedenLag (2022:482) om elektronisk kommunikation (Electronic Communications Act), erasure or de-identification of traffic data and location data
Lag (2022:482) om elektronisk kommunikation, 9 kap. 1 and 7 §§
In force since .
A de-identification rule binding private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- Erase or de-identify traffic data on users who are natural persons, and on subscribers, once the data is no longer needed to transmit an electronic message, unless it is kept for a use that 9 kap. 2, 15, 19 or 21 § allows (Lag 2022:482, 9 kap. 1 §). The duty binds a provider of a public electronic communications network or a publicly available electronic communications service.
- Process location data other than traffic data on natural-person users or subscribers only after it has been de-identified or the user or subscriber has consented, and only to the extent and for the time that a service needing the data requires (Lag 2022:482, 9 kap. 7 §).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What this law does
Chapter 9, section 1 of the Electronic Communications Act requires a provider of a public electronic communications network or a publicly available electronic communications service to erase or de-identify traffic data on natural-person users and subscribers when it is no longer needed to transmit an electronic message.
Chapter 9, section 7 allows location data other than traffic data on natural-person users or subscribers to be processed only after it has been de-identified or with the user's or subscriber's consent.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app processes personal data, processes de-identified data or provides telecom services.
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