Telecommunications Act
(TCA)

¹ The Com­mis­sion and the Fed­er­al Of­fice may pro­cess per­son­al data, in­clud­ing data con­cern­ing ad­min­is­trat­ive or crim­in­al pro­sec­u­tions and sanc­tions, provided that this is in­dis­pens­able for the ful­fil­ment of their tasks un­der the tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions le­gis­la­tion.⁴⁴ They may use an in­form­a­tion sys­tem for this pur­pose.

² They shall take the tech­nic­al and or­gan­isa­tion­al meas­ures ne­ces­sary for data pro­tec­tion and se­cur­ity dur­ing pro­cessing, and in par­tic­u­lar dur­ing trans­mis­sion.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may is­sue com­ple­ment­ary pro­vi­sions, namely con­cern­ing the or­gan­isa­tion and op­er­a­tion of the in­form­a­tion sys­tem, the cat­egor­ies of the data to be pro­cessed, ac­cess and pro­cessing au­thor­isa­tions, the term of con­ser­va­tion as well as the archiv­ing and de­struc­tion of data.