Law note · Sweden
IMY Enforcement, GDPR Article 82, Dataskyddslagen Chapter 6-7, and Group Proceedings
Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten (IMY) is Sweden's supervisory authority. Dataskyddslagen Chapter 6 caps administrative fines against public authorities below General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)'s own ceiling (SEK 5,000,000 for Article 83.4 violations, SEK 10,000,000 for Article 83.5-83.6), confirmed by reading the chapter directly, and the Act contains no separate criminal-penalties chapter at all.
GDPR Article 82 arms an individual with a direct private right of action, restated for the Swedish Act's own violations by Dataskyddslagen Chapter 7 Section 1.
Sweden separately has a general civil group-litigation mechanism, Lag (2002:599) om grupprattegang, permitting private, organizational, and public group actions; its scope provision covers any claim that could be brought before a general court under civil-dispute rules, with no data-protection-specific text confirming actual use for a GDPR claim.
What it asks of an app
- Expect IMY to have General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Article 83 fining power over your processing of personal data of a person in Sweden, though its fines against Swedish public authorities are capped below the general GDPR ceiling.
- Expect any person in Sweden who suffered material or non-material damage from an infringement to have a direct GDPR Article 82 right to compensation from you as controller or processor.
When LexLint raises it
Declared activities: crawls_web, trains_models, deploys_chatbot, processes_biometrics, processes_voice
Primary source: Dataskyddslagen ch. 6-7 (direct read)
Lag (2002:599) om grupprattegang secs. 2, 4-6 (direct read)