Data Protection Atlas

Norway

Tier 2 Comprehensive law Europe

Principal framework: GDPR (EEA) + Personal Data Act 2018 (2018). Regulator: Datatilsynet. Camera-surveillance and credit-check rules kept nationally.

At a glance

Criminal offences
No dedicated data protection offence carrying custody
Public-sector fines
Yes — ordinary administrative fines
Principal law
Personopplysningsloven (lov 15. juni 2018 nr. 38) [Personal Data Act]
Regulator
Datatilsynet
Breach notification
72 hours to the supervisory authority (Art 33); undue-delay notice to individuals at high risk
Maximum penalty
Up to €20m or 4% of global annual turnover
DPO required
Public authorities; large-scale regular monitoring or special-category processing (Art 37)
Digital consent age
13
Extraterritorial reach
Yes — targeting or monitoring people in the EU (Art 3(2))
National implementing act
Personal Data Act 2018 (EEA)

Structure

Structural pattern
Not assessed
Sub-jurisdictions
None — no sub-national axis
ISO code
NO

A Pattern 4 jurisdiction has no sub-national layer to model. Devolution elsewhere in the legal system does not imply it here — check each Act rather than reasoning from the country.

Transfers and adequacy

EU member
Yes
EEA member
Yes
Holds EU adequacy
Yes

EU/EEA member — intra-EEA transfers need no adequacy decision.

Instruments

No instrument profiled yet.

Also applies here

Directly applicable as EU law, without national transposition. The national act supplements it rather than replacing it.

Sources

Never independently verified — seeded from the prototype.