Data Protection Laws of the World Handbook: Second Edition - Luxembourg

LAW

The law dated 2 August 2002 on the Protection of Persons with regard to the Processing of Personal Data as modified ("Law").

The Law dated 30 May 2005 lays down specific provisions for the protection of persons with regard to the processing of personal data in the electronic communications sector.

DEFINITION OF PERSONAL DATA

The Law defines "personal data" as follows: any information of any type regardless of the type of medium, including sound and image, relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ("data subject"); a natural person will be considered to be identifiable if it can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identification number or one or more factors specific to its physical, physiological, genetic, mental, cultural, social or economic, identity."