Region: Sweden

A Swedish court has upheld parts of the data regulator decision against Klarna, but reduced the penalty figure from 7.5 million kronor (€663,000) to 6 million (€535,000).

17 April 2023

The European Court of Justice has confirmed the GDPR applies to disclosure orders in civil litigation, forcing courts to balance the interests of affected data subjects against those who seek evidence.

02 March 2023

2022 was yet another busy year for data protection, and even as GDR took a brief break from its usual programming over the Christmas period there were still developments worth noting. We’ve rounded up the most important stories from the end of the year, from fines to class action arguments to new jobs for those at the top of the privacy world.

03 January 2023

The Stockholm administrative court said a decision by the data regulator to exclude an individual from an investigation into a complaint he filed was incompatible with the GDPR, in a case that could force the watchdog to radically revise its enforcement model.

02 November 2022

Sweden’s data regulator has allowed Danske Bank to process information about its own customers across different branches in order to fulfil its anti-money laundering obligations, but warned that the bank must still comply with the GDPR overall in doing so.

10 October 2022

A European Court of Justice advocate-general has said the GDPR applies to orders for the provision of evidence in civil proceedings, forcing courts to balance the interests of affected data subjects against those who seek evidence.

07 October 2022

Sweden’s data protection authority has reprimanded Verifiera for processing sensitive personal data without the right permissions – a decision which will help to define the boundary between the country’s unique ‘publishing certificates’ and the GDPR.

14 September 2022

Sweden’s data protection authority is investigating a remote healthcare company over the collection of personal data from two of its websites through Facebook pixels and the subsequent transfer of that data to Meta – only two weeks after opening a similar probe into pharmacy chains.

16 June 2022

The Swedish data watchdog is investigating three pharmacy chains over the collection of personal data from visitors to their web shops through Facebook pixels and the subsequent transfer of that data to Meta.

06 June 2022

A new investigation by Sweden’s data protection authority could see limits placed on the ability of third parties to monetise the country’s unusually open approach to government data, particularly court records.

26 April 2022