Federal Act
on Data Protection
(Data Protection Act, FADP)

¹ Any per­son who has a le­git­im­ate in­terest may re­quest the re­spons­ible fed­er­al body to:

a.

stop the un­law­ful pro­cessing of the per­son­al data con­cerned;

b.

re­dress the con­sequences of un­law­ful pro­cessing;

c.

de­clare the pro­cessing to be un­law­ful.

² The ap­plic­ant may in par­tic­u­lar re­quest the fed­er­al body to:

a.

cor­rect, de­lete or des­troy the per­son­al data con­cerned;

b.

com­mu­nic­ate its de­cision, in par­tic­u­lar about cor­rect­ing, de­let­ing or des­troy­ing per­son­al data, the ob­jec­tion against the dis­clos­ure un­der Art­icle 37 or mark­ing data as dis­puted un­der para­graph 4, to third parties or pub­lish the de­cision.

³ In­stead of de­let­ing or des­troy­ing the per­son­al data, the fed­er­al body shall re­strict the pro­cessing if:

a.

the data sub­ject dis­putes the ac­cur­acy of the per­son­al data and neither its ac­cur­acy nor its in­ac­cur­acy can be es­tab­lished;

b.

the over­rid­ing in­terests of third parties so re­quire;

c.

an over­rid­ing pub­lic in­terest, in par­tic­u­lar Switzer­land's in­tern­al or ex­tern­al se­cur­ity, so re­quires;

d.

de­let­ing or des­troy­ing the data may jeop­ard­ise an en­quiry, an in­vest­ig­a­tion or an ad­min­is­trat­ive or ju­di­cial pro­ced­ure.

⁴ If neither the ac­cur­acy nor the in­ac­cur­acy of the rel­ev­ant per­son­al data can be es­tab­lished, the fed­er­al body shall mark the data as be­ing dis­puted.

⁵ The cor­rec­tion, de­le­tion or de­struc­tion of per­son­al data may not be re­ques­ted in con­nec­tion with the stocks held by pub­licly ac­cess­ible lib­rar­ies, edu­ca­tion and train­ing in­sti­tu­tions, mu­seums, archives or oth­er pub­lic memory in­sti­tu­tions. If the ap­plic­ant cred­ibly shows an over­rid­ing in­terest, he or she may re­quest the in­sti­tu­tion to re­strict ac­cess to the dis­puted data. Para­graphs 3 and 4 do not ap­ply.

⁶ The pro­ced­ure is gov­erned by the APA¹⁰. The ex­cep­tions in Art­icles 2 and 3 APA do not ap­ply.