Personal Data Act
The Act makes the General Data Protection Regulation Norwegian law and fills in the national choices: processing in the employment relationship, camera surveillance, the age of consent, freedom of expression and research, and the powers of the Data Protection Authority and the Privacy Appeals Board.
Register
- Reference
- LOV-2018-06-15-38
- Adopted
- 2018-06-15
- In force
- 2018-07-20
- Ministry
- Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Governance
- Supervision
- Datatilsynet
- Area
- Data protection and trust services
- Read date
- 2026-09-09
Official text
- Read the act on LovdataLOV-2018-06-15-38
- The EU act it implements: GDPR (EU) 2016/679
- Swedish counterpart: Dataskyddslagen (2018:218)
- Supervision: Datatilsynet
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Other acts in the same area
- Act on electronic trust services
LOV-2018-06-15-44In force: 2018-06-15Nasjonal kommunikasjonsmyndighet
The Act makes the eIDAS Regulation Norwegian law and regulates electronic signatures, seals, time stamps, registered electronic delivery and website authentication, together with supervision of qualified trust service providers.
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