Federal Act on Data Protection

¹Ac­tions re­lat­ing to pro­tec­tion of pri­vacy are gov­erned by Art­icles 28, 28a and 28l of the Civil Code². The plaintiff may in par­tic­u­lar re­quest that data pro­cessing be stopped, that no data be dis­closed to third parties, or that the per­son­al data be cor­rec­ted or des­troyed.

²Where it is im­possible to demon­strate that per­son­al data is ac­cur­ate or in­ac­cur­ate, the plaintiff may re­quest that a note to this ef­fect be ad­ded to the data.

³The plaintiff may re­quest that no­ti­fic­a­tion of third parties or the pub­lic­a­tion of the cor­rec­tion, de­struc­tion, block­ing, and in par­tic­u­lar the pro­hib­i­tion of dis­clos­ure to third parties, the mark­ing of the data as dis­puted or the court judg­ment.

⁴Ac­tions on the en­force­ment of a right to in­form­a­tion shall be de­cided by the courts in a sim­pli­fied pro­ced­ure un­der the Civil Pro­ced­ure Code of 19 Decem­ber 2008³.