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

¹ The FIS shall store the data from in­form­a­tion gath­er­ing meas­ures re­quir­ing au­thor­isa­tion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 26 on a case-re­lated basis and sep­ar­ately from the in­form­a­tion sys­tems lis­ted in Art­icle 47.

² It shall en­sure that per­son­al data ori­gin­at­ing from in­form­a­tion gath­er­ing meas­ures re­quir­ing au­thor­isa­tion that is not re­lated to the spe­cif­ic threat situ­ation is not used and is des­troyed at the latest 30 days after con­clu­sion of the meas­ure.

³ If the in­form­a­tion gath­er­ing meas­ure re­quir­ing au­thor­isa­tion relates to a per­son who be­longs to any of pro­fes­sion­al groups men­tioned in Art­icles 171–173 Crim­PC²⁷, data that is not re­lated to the spe­cif­ic threat situ­ation shall be sep­ar­ated and des­troyed un­der the su­per­vi­sion²⁸ of the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court. If the in­form­a­tion gath­er­ing meas­ure re­quir­ing au­thor­isa­tion relates to an­oth­er per­son, data about which a per­son has the right to re­fuse to testi­fy in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 171–173 Crim­PC must also be des­troyed.

⁴ In spe­cif­ic cases and sub­ject to com­pli­ance with Art­icle 5 para­graphs 5–8, it may also store per­son­al data in the in­form­a­tion sys­tem provided for this pur­pose in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 47 para­graph 1, provided it con­tains in­form­a­tion re­quired to ful­fil tasks in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 6 para­graph 1.

⁵ FIS em­ploy­ees that have the task of car­ry­ing out a in­form­a­tion gath­er­ing meas­ure and eval­u­at­ing the res­ults have on­line ac­cess to the rel­ev­ant data.

⁶ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late:

a.

the cata­logue of per­son­al data;

b.

the pro­cessing and ac­cess rights;

c.

the re­ten­tion peri­od for the data and the pro­ced­ure for des­troy­ing data;

d.

data se­cur­ity.