Federal Act
on the Intelligence Service
(Intelligence Service Act, IntelSA)

¹ The FIS shall as­sess the rel­ev­ance and ac­cur­acy of per­son­al data be­fore re­cord­ing it in an in­form­a­tion sys­tem. Re­ports that con­tain sev­er­al sets of per­son­al data shall be as­sessed in their en­tirety be­fore they are re­cor­ded in the fil­ing sys­tem.

² It shall only re­cord data that may be used to ful­fil the tasks in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 6, sub­ject to com­pli­ance with Art­icle 5 para­graphs 5–8.

³ It shall des­troy data that may not be re­cor­ded in any in­form­a­tion sys­tem or re­turn it to the sender for fur­ther in­vest­ig­a­tion or for pro­cessing on the sender’s own ini­ti­at­ive.

⁴ It shall peri­od­ic­ally check in all in­form­a­tion sys­tems wheth­er the re­cor­ded sets of per­son­al data are still re­quired to carry out its tasks. It shall de­lete data re­cords that are no longer re­quired. In­cor­rect data shall be cor­rec­ted im­me­di­ately or de­leted; Art­icle 44 para­graph 2 re­mains re­served.

⁵ The FIS’s in­tern­al qual­ity as­sur­ance ser­vice shall carry out the fol­low­ing tasks:

a.

it shall re­view the per­son­al data in the sys­tem IASA-GEX FIS (Art. 50) with re­gard to its rel­ev­ance and ac­cur­acy;

b.

it shall peri­od­ic­ally re­view the re­ports from the can­ton­al ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­it­ies re­cor­ded in the IN­DEX FIS sys­tem (Art. 51) with re­gard to their rel­ev­ance and ac­cur­acy;

c.

it shall veri­fy by ran­dom sample the leg­al­ity, ex­pedi­ency, ef­fect­ive­ness and ac­cur­acy of the data pro­cessing in all FIS in­form­a­tion sys­tems;

d.

it shall de­lete data in the IN­DEX FIS sys­tem that ori­gin­ates from pre­lim­in­ary in­vest­ig­a­tions con­duc­ted by the can­tons which was re­cor­ded more than five years pre­vi­ously, and data whose de­le­tion is re­ques­ted by the can­ton;

e.

it shall ar­range in­tern­al train­ing ses­sions for FIS em­ploy­ees on data pro­tec­tion mat­ters.