Federal Act on Data Protection

¹Fed­er­al bod­ies may pro­cess per­son­al data if there is a stat­utory basis for do­ing so.

²They may pro­cess sens­it­ive per­son­al data and per­son­al­ity pro­files only if a form­al en­act­ment ex­pressly provides there­for or if, by way of ex­cep­tion:

a.

such pro­cessing is es­sen­tial for a task clearly defined in a form­al en­act­ment;

b.

the Fed­er­al Coun­cil au­thor­ises pro­cessing in an in­di­vidu­al case be­cause the rights of the data sub­ject are not en­dangered; or

c.

the data sub­ject has giv­en his con­sent in an in­di­vidu­al case or made his data gen­er­al ac­cess­ible and has not ex­pressly pro­hib­ited its pro­cessing.¹