Data master

A data master and the data mastery exercised by him are common terms, especially in Switzerland, in connection with the competence and responsibility under data protection law for a specific database .

The data owner is determined by law and may collect, update and manage data according to the data protection concept , regulated for example in Art. 8 Para. 1 of the Swiss Federal Law on Geoinformation . However, the Federal Act on Geoinformation uses the terms “responsibility” and “responsible body” instead of “data master” and “data master”.

In organized structures, the data owner is the person responsible for the project or the line manager.

In the case of data processing by order in accordance with § 62 BDSG , data control rests with the client, which the client must secure by agreeing on corresponding return and deletion obligations.

Web links

Lukas Fässler: Duty of care of management executives in dealing with information relevant to data protection eGovernment Schaffhausen, 2012
GPS - Good Practice Secondary Data Analysis Guideline of the working group "Collection and Use of Secondary Data" (AGENS) of the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP) from January 15, 2005

Individual evidence

↑ cf. Art. 12 Federal Act on the Federal Population Census (Census Act) of June 22, 2007 (as of January 1, 2008)
↑ Questions on geographic reference data under federal law ( Memento from June 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) What is understood by "data control" or "responsibility" in the GeoIG / GeoIV environment? Federal Geoportal, accessed on June 23, 2016.
^ Coordinating body for federal geographic information (GKG): Implementation of the GeoIG in the area of basic geographic data under federal law: Answers to frequently asked questions. Retrieved July 28, 2016 .
↑ cf. Process of data distribution from the data owner to the data administration office (DVS), Basel-Landschaft line cadastre, Office for Geoinformation, accessed on 23 June 2016
↑ Disclosure of data to authorities (without retrieval procedure and without disclosure abroad) according to the Municipal Data Protection Act (KDSG)
↑ Thomas Hoeren: The new BDSG and order data processing DuD 2010, 688, 691

[1] . Art. 12 Federal Act on the Federal Population Census (Census Act) of June 22, 2007 (as of January 1, 2008)

[2] Questions on geographic reference data under federal law ( Memento from June 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) What is understood by "data control" or "responsibility" in the GeoIG / GeoIV environment? Federal Geoportal, accessed on June 23, 2016.

[3] Coordinating body for federal geographic information (GKG): Implementation of the GeoIG in the area of basic geographic data under federal law: Answers to frequently asked questions. Retrieved July 28, 2016 .

[4] . Process of data distribution from the data owner to the data administration office (DVS), Basel-Landschaft line cadastre, Office for Geoinformation, accessed on 23 June 2016

[5] Disclosure of data to authorities (without retrieval procedure and without disclosure abroad) according to the Municipal Data Protection Act (KDSG)

[6] Thomas Hoeren: The new BDSG and order data processing DuD 2010, 688, 691