When you process other people's personal data in your studies, there are various rules and procedures that you need to follow. The routine has now been simplified in that you yourself no longer need to report the personal data processing you do within your studies in the university's register.
Instead, it is the Head od Department, i.e. the department manager or "prefekt" in Swedish, who is responsible for making an overall report of all the personal data processing carried out at the department.
What is also new in the procedures is that you must always both inform about the processing and obtain consent from those whose personal data you will be processing when the personal data is collected directly from the data subject/individual. To make it as easy as possible for you, there is a template that can be used both to inform about the processing and to obtain consent.
Please note that you do not need to obtain consent and inform about the processing when the personal data has been collected from, for example, a database or from news articles. In other respects, you need to process the personal data according to the routines described here in the Student Portal.
Examples of situations where you may process personal data are when you:
Information about the routines and a checklist for what you need to do when processing personal data is found on the following page: