Data Protection and Transparency Commissioner for the Geneva Canton |
Public information on the mission, organisation and activities of the administration, guaranteed by access to official documents [1]. See also Official Documents.
Analysis of the physiological and behavioural characteristics of a person such as the voice, face shape, iris, fingerprints, and signature ... in principle unique and unforgeable (Greek etymology: bios - "life") and metron - "measure"). These can be expressed differently depending on the context, the most common are defined below [1]
A tool which allows to perform a number of tasks on the data.
Computer and telecommunication means that allows for the storage, the processing, the transportation and destruction of data.
A private person or federal or cantonal bodies who decide on the purpose and contents of the data file, and who is responsible.
Conventional representation of information (fact, notion, work order) in the form of (analogue or digital) for automatic processing. A basic element which, when added to others or the process applied to it, biometric information, is obtained. See Biometrics.
For data entered or captured (see video surveillance) and saved in a computer system, all technical action making the data completely and permanently inaccessible (deleting, overwriting, ...). The physical destruction of data deletes the data from the hard disk where they are found while the logical destruction makes them inaccessible.
Any system designed to bring together, on any medium whatsoever, personal data structured in such a way that the data is accessible by data subject. See Controller of the data file.
Responsible for the monitoring of the application of the Geneva law on public information, access to documents and protection of personal data (LIPAD) by cantonal and local public and para-public institutions, as well as private organisations linked by a service contract to one or another of these.
Responsible for the monitoring of the application by private individuals and federal bodies of the Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and other federal provisions concerning data protection, and for the monitoring of the application by federal bodies of the Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) [2].
Location from an object space located on the surface of the Earth. GPS: location system which allows to know the position of a mobile by means of a signal receiver transmitted by a network of satellites, this receiver also .
Information about something or someone. Result of a request of one or more information systems that is intelligible, coherent and usable by others.
Organized set of resources (human, information, data, procedures, tools) to acquire, store, organize and communicate information from a public operating range in the form of digital data or text, images and sound data.
All data information mediums owned by a public authority with information concerning the completion of a public task. These include, in particular, the messages (for emails, printing), reports, studies, approved minutes, statistics, records, correspondence, instructions, notices, decisions. Personal notes, rough drafts and other uncompleted texts, unapproved minutes are excluded.
Any information relating to a natural or legal person, identified or identifiable.
Any operation with personal data, irrespective of the means applied and the procedure, and in particular the collection, storage, use, revision, disclosure, archiving or destruction of data.
In this tool, the recommendations contained at the bottom of scenarios are tips on the steps to take, or the behaviour to adopt to comply with the rules of data protection and transparency.
Personal data on religious, philosophical, political, trade-union or cultural opinions or activities, health, intimate sphere, on ethnicity or race, on welfare measures, on prosecution or penal or administrative sanctions.
A collection, whether open or not, using cameras of pictures and information about people, in the form of video recordings.
[1] Federal Act on Freedom of Information in the Administration (Freedom of Information Act, FoIA) http://www.admin.ch/ch/e/rs/152_3/index.html
[2] Federal legal framework on Data Protection and Information http://www.edoeb.admin.ch/org/00828/index.html?lang=en
[3] Federal Act on Data Protection (DPA) http://www.admin.ch/ch/e/rs/c235_1.html