Sweden has implemented the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018 with the law SFS nr 2018:218.
This legislation also relates directly to a general principle of the Swedish Fundamental Laws: that all information held by public authorities that is not explicitly made secret is automatically made public. Thus, all government archives are accessible to the public, except material that has been made secret. Among the more common reasons to declare information secret is when it is deemed personal. The amount of information thus protected has been increasing in the 21st century.
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