All information material is made available on the Internet. The staff of the Data Inspectorate hold frequent lectures in different parts of the country, and also hold seminars focusing on different subjects and target groups. The Ministry of Justice is the appeal body for decisions made by the Data Inspectorate. Appeals are first dealt with by the Data Inspectorate, which decides whether a decision shall be upheld or whether the case shall be sent to the Ministry of Justice for a final decision. The Data Inspectorate receives very few appeals.
All persons have a right to demand details of registered information concerning themselves.
This right applies to both private and public electronic registers, and to public manual registers. There are exceptions to this rule. The right of inspection does not, for example, apply to registers that are used only for statistical and research purposes. If a personal data register contains erroneous or incomplete data concerning a person, this data shall be corrected, supplemented or deleted. A person has the right to demand that his name be blocked in a personal data register, so as to prevent its use for distribution of advertising or similar publications.