INTRA/FIFinland
What the record establishes for Finland, measure by measure, and what each source requires of the measure it governs.
| Control | Source | What it establishes | Prerequisite or recommendation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12Mandatory | |||
| AW002/FITransparency notice on what is observedMandatory | Laki yksityisyyden suojasta työelämässä (759/2004)Parliament of Finland · read 29 Aug 2026 | One act for the whole subject, holding processing to what is directly necessary, naming the conditions for cameras and for opening the employer’s electronic mail, and putting technical monitoring through a cooperation procedure before it is introduced. | What the workforce is told after the procedure is the purpose of the monitoring, its introduction, the methods used, and the terms on which electronic mail and the network may be used. |
| BA004/FIUse of psychological and dispositional indicatorsMandatory | Laki yksityisyyden suojasta työelämässä (759/2004)Parliament of Finland · read 29 Aug 2026 | One act for the whole subject, holding processing to what is directly necessary, naming the conditions for cameras and for opening the employer’s electronic mail, and putting technical monitoring through a cooperation procedure before it is introduced. | A personality or aptitude assessment is taken with the employee’s consent, and the employer answers for the reliability of the method, the expertise of the assessor, and the findings being free from error. |
| BA010/FIDisclosure of an assessment to its subjectMandatory | Laki yksityisyyden suojasta työelämässä (759/2004)Parliament of Finland · read 29 Aug 2026 | One act for the whole subject, holding processing to what is directly necessary, naming the conditions for cameras and for opening the employer’s electronic mail, and putting technical monitoring through a cooperation procedure before it is introduced. | The person assessed is given a written statement on the assessment free of charge on request, and where the employer received it orally, its content is told to them. |
| CP002/FITermination of employmentMandatory | Laki yksityisyyden suojasta työelämässä (759/2004)Parliament of Finland · read 29 Aug 2026 | One act for the whole subject, holding processing to what is directly necessary, naming the conditions for cameras and for opening the employer’s electronic mail, and putting technical monitoring through a cooperation procedure before it is introduced. | Recordings may be used to substantiate the grounds for ending an employment relationship, and that use is stated as an exception to the purpose limitation and to the cooperation procedure. |
| DP014/FIPersonal material in company accountsMandatory | Laki yksityisyyden suojasta työelämässä (759/2004)Parliament of Finland · read 29 Aug 2026 | One act for the whole subject, holding processing to what is directly necessary, naming the conditions for cameras and for opening the employer’s electronic mail, and putting technical monitoring through a cooperation procedure before it is introduced. | What the employer may reach is the message belonging to it, identified from the sender, the recipient, or the title, and what is opened may not be processed further than the purpose requires nor disclosed during the employment or after it. |
| GV007/FILawful basis registerMandatory | Laki yksityisyyden suojasta työelämässä (759/2004)Parliament of Finland · read 29 Aug 2026 | One act for the whole subject, holding processing to what is directly necessary, naming the conditions for cameras and for opening the employer’s electronic mail, and putting technical monitoring through a cooperation procedure before it is introduced. | Only data directly necessary for the employment relationship may be processed, and no exception to that test can be made even with the employee’s consent. |
| GV010/FIWorker representative engagementMandatory | Laki yksityisyyden suojasta työelämässä (759/2004)Parliament of Finland · read 29 Aug 2026 | One act for the whole subject, holding processing to what is directly necessary, naming the conditions for cameras and for opening the employer’s electronic mail, and putting technical monitoring through a cooperation procedure before it is introduced. | Camera surveillance, access control, other technical monitoring, and the use of electronic mail and the network go through the cooperation procedure before the employer decides. Where the cooperation acts do not apply, the employees or their representatives are heard first. |
| IV010/FIDecision recordMandatory | Laki yksityisyyden suojasta työelämässä (759/2004)Parliament of Finland · read 29 Aug 2026 | One act for the whole subject, holding processing to what is directly necessary, naming the conditions for cameras and for opening the employer’s electronic mail, and putting technical monitoring through a cooperation procedure before it is introduced. | Both the retrieval and the opening are written up, signed by those who carried them out, and submitted to the employee without undue delay. |
| MD006/FIElectronic mail and collaboration monitoringMandatory | Laki yksityisyyden suojasta työelämässä (759/2004)Parliament of Finland · read 29 Aug 2026 | One act for the whole subject, holding processing to what is directly necessary, naming the conditions for cameras and for opening the employer’s electronic mail, and putting technical monitoring through a cooperation procedure before it is introduced. | Retrieval of messages belonging to the employer is open only after the employer has arranged the absence alternatives in section 18, and only on the four conditions in section 19, with a signed report of the retrieval given to the employee. |
| MD008/FIAccess to the content of communicationsMandatory | Laki yksityisyyden suojasta työelämässä (759/2004)Parliament of Finland · read 29 Aug 2026 | One act for the whole subject, holding processing to what is directly necessary, naming the conditions for cameras and for opening the employer’s electronic mail, and putting technical monitoring through a cooperation procedure before it is introduced. | Opening is done with the system administrator and a second person present, and the report states which message was opened, why, when, by whom, and to whom its content was given. |
| MD013/FIPhysical access monitoringMandatory | Laki yksityisyyden suojasta työelämässä (759/2004)Parliament of Finland · read 29 Aug 2026 | One act for the whole subject, holding processing to what is directly necessary, naming the conditions for cameras and for opening the employer’s electronic mail, and putting technical monitoring through a cooperation procedure before it is introduced. | Access control is named among the systems the cooperation procedure governs, so it is settled with the workforce before it is introduced. |
| MD014/FIVideo surveillance of the workplaceMandatory | Laki yksityisyyden suojasta työelämässä (759/2004)Parliament of Finland · read 29 Aug 2026 | One act for the whole subject, holding processing to what is directly necessary, naming the conditions for cameras and for opening the employer’s electronic mail, and putting technical monitoring through a cooperation procedure before it is introduced. | Cameras are for the security of persons, the protection of property, and the supervision of production, and may not be aimed at a particular employee outside three named cases, nor placed in lavatories, changing rooms, or rooms set aside for personal use. Less intrusive means are examined first, and a notice is displayed where the cameras are. |
| 6Recommended | |||
| MD002Log collection and centralizationwhere writtenRecommended | Katakri 2020Kansallinen turvallisuusviranomainen · read 29 Aug 2026 | The criteria an authority audits against, among them the requirement to recognize which functions call for special trustworthiness, a clearance graded on three scales, and log retention set by the limitation periods of the criminal law. | The retention follows what the records may later have to answer. At the fourth classification level the essential recordings are kept at least six months; where the limitation periods of the criminal law bear on the information, at least five years, which is also the floor at the two levels above. The clocks within a security domain are synchronized to a single reference, the log files are backed up, a procedure covers their integrity, and they and the register services are protected against unauthorized access. |
| PS002Risk-tiered screening standardswhere writtenRecommended | Katakri 2020Kansallinen turvallisuusviranomainen · read 29 Aug 2026 | The criteria an authority audits against, among them the requirement to recognize which functions call for special trustworthiness, a clearance graded on three scales, and log retention set by the limitation periods of the criminal law. | The authority has to recognize which of its functions call for special trustworthiness and reliability in the people employed in them. The clearance that follows can rest on a concise, a basic, or a comprehensive investigation, and which of the three is used depends on the information at stake. |
| PS003Screening of privileged-role holderswhere writtenRecommended | Katakri 2020Kansallinen turvallisuusviranomainen · read 29 Aug 2026 | The criteria an authority audits against, among them the requirement to recognize which functions call for special trustworthiness, a clearance graded on three scales, and log retention set by the limitation periods of the criminal law. | Where international requirements demand it, a person is given access to information at the third classification level and above only after a personnel security clearance has been issued for that level. |
| PS004Screening during employmentwhere writtenRecommended | Katakri 2020Kansallinen turvallisuusviranomainen · read 29 Aug 2026 | The criteria an authority audits against, among them the requirement to recognize which functions call for special trustworthiness, a clearance graded on three scales, and log retention set by the limitation periods of the criminal law. | The clearances, the handling rights, the rights of use, the access rights, and the awareness of the duty not to disclose are all kept updated as changes occur, and the training that goes with a change is given before the change. |
| PS007Role change and internal transferwhere writtenRecommended | Katakri 2020Kansallinen turvallisuusviranomainen · read 29 Aug 2026 | The criteria an authority audits against, among them the requirement to recognize which functions call for special trustworthiness, a clearance graded on three scales, and log retention set by the limitation periods of the criminal law. | Changes in what a person may handle are noted at each phase of the employment, and a change of responsibilities is named alongside recruitment and termination as one of the three the attention goes to. |
| PS008Leaver processwhere writtenRecommended | Katakri 2020Kansallinen turvallisuusviranomainen · read 29 Aug 2026 | The criteria an authority audits against, among them the requirement to recognize which functions call for special trustworthiness, a clearance graded on three scales, and log retention set by the limitation periods of the criminal law. | On the termination of the employment the keys, the badges, and the classified material are collected in, the access, handling, and use rights are deleted, and the person is reminded of the responsibilities of non-disclosure that remain. |
