After a legislative process lasting almost four years, Swiss
Parliament adopted the revision of Swiss data protection law at the
end of September 2020. The revised Data Protection Act (DPA) will
enter into force in 2022. There will be no transitional period. It
leads to numerous alignments with the EU General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR), but still retains its own basic concept and also
deviates from it in various other respects. Examples of important
innovations of the DSG revision are the significantly stricter
sanctions, extended information obligations, the obligation to
create a processing directory and the expansion of the rights of
the data subject. The revised DPA is applicable to any company
addressing with its product sales or services as well as the
respective marketing activities Swiss customers and thereby
processing their personal data. In this webinar the speakers will
provide the participants with an overview of the most important new
provisions and
