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

¹ If the fed­er­al body or the private per­son fails to ful­fil the du­ties to co­oper­ate, the FD­PIC may as part of the in­vest­ig­a­tion or­der the fol­low­ing in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

ac­cess to all in­form­a­tion, doc­u­ments, re­cords of pro­cessing activ­it­ies and per­son­al data that are re­quired for the in­vest­ig­a­tion;

b.

ac­cess to premises and in­stall­a­tions;

c.

ques­tion­ing of wit­nesses;

d.

ap­prais­als by ex­perts.

² Pro­fes­sion­al secrecy re­mains re­served.

³ In or­der to en­force the meas­ures un­der para­graph 1 the FD­PIC may re­quest sup­port from oth­er fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies and from the can­ton­al or com­mun­al po­lice.