Glossary
Glossary: Data privacy in switzerland and the EU
Overview of the main differences in terminology definitions:
| DSG: Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (DSG) issued 19 June 1992 (last updated 1 January 2014) | EU DS-GVO: REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND COUNCIL of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data, and on the free movement of such data and repealing directive 95/46/EG (General Data Protection Regulation) |
|---|---|
| Personal data | Personal data |
| Sensitive personal data | Special categories of personal data |
| Processing | Processing |
| Personality profile | Profiling |
| Controller of the data file | Controller |
| Data processing by third parties | Processor |
| E-DSG: Draft of Revised Swiss Data Protection Act | |
|---|---|
| Personal data (data) | |
| Sensitive personal data | |
| Processing | |
| Personality profile | |
| Controller of the data file | |
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Data processing by third parties |
(last modification: 25.05.2018)