Switzerland has a modern, coherent legal foundation in terms of the rights to data and its use
Switzerland will constantly monitor whether its legislation and the international agreements for the data economy are optimally designed. With the aid of a modern and coherent legal foundation, the potential of data for the economy and society can be realised. Switzerland is developing an internationally coordinated data policy, which among other things covers issues of data sovereignty, access to government data, international data traffic, regulation of competition intellectual property, data protection and handling localisation guidelines.
Field of action
Data, digital content and artificial intelligence
Data is a key raw material in the knowledge society and the digital economy. This requires it to be available in high quality. In so far as there are no statutory regulations to the contrary, data should be made publicly accessible and available. Thanks t...
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Key documents
- Message of 15 September 2017 on the federal law on total revision of federal legislation on data protection and changes to other ordinances relating to data protection
- Experts' report of 15 February 2018 on data portability and regulations concerning re-use of data
- Experts' report of 22 December 2017 on the possibility of the introduction of a data portability right in Swiss law and on the legal position of Personal Information Management System (PIMS)
- Message of 6 December 2019 on the approval of the protocol relating to the amendment of the Data Protection Convention of the Council of Europe