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Ethics & legal obligations

National and international laws may require from researchers to follow a number of principles when collecting and / or processing personal data.

If you are processing personal data and your research falls under the听Federal Act
on Research involving Human Beings (), the relevant ethics commission is the Cantonal Commission for Ethics and Research (). Otherwise, you must contact the听AV短视频's Committee for Ethical Research ().

To find out which law applies to your research, consult this summary table. If you are working with international collaborators, this may involve various laws.

Here are the links for the main regulations about data management and protection:

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

regulates data protection and privacy for all individuals within the EU, as well as export of personal data outside the EU. It aims primarly to give control to individuals over their personal data.听In human research, this affects all internationally active institutions and companies that collect and process personal data from EU residents or send data from Swiss citizens abroad (EU).听

Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP)

听罢丑别 (Loi f茅d茅rale sur la Protection des donn茅es - LPD): defines what is considered (sensitive) personal data and general data protection provisions, such as: proportionality, correctness of data, possibility of cross-border disclosure, of data processing by third parties,鈥

Federal Act on Research involving Human Beings (Human Research Act, HRA)

The (ou LRH):

Applies to research on human diseases and on the structure and functioning of the human body, carried out:

a. on people;

b. on deceased people;

c. on embryos and fetuses;

d. on biological material;

e. on personal data related to health.

Does not apply to the research carried out:

a. on in vitro embryos (within the meaning of the Federal Act of 19 December 2003 on embryonic stem cell research)

b. on anonymous biological material;

c. on health-related data that have been collected anonymously or anonymized.

Loi sur l鈥檌nformation du public, l鈥檃cc猫s aux documents et la protection des donn茅es personnelles (LIPAD)
Processing for general purposes: "Public institutions are entitled to process personal data for general statistical purposes, scientific research (鈥) under the conditions that:听听
(b) such data are destroyed or made anonymous as soon as the purpose of the specific processing operation concerned so permits;

(c) the data collected for these purposes alone are not communicated to any other institution, entity or person".听( our translation)

Loi sur l鈥橴niversit茅 (LU)

The gives indication about owership of data in the university context:

"A l鈥檈xception des droits d鈥檃uteur sur les publications, l鈥檜niversit茅 est titulaire des droits de propri茅t茅 intellectuelle portant sur toutes les cr茅ations intellectuelles ainsi que les r茅sultats de recherches, y compris les programmes informatiques, obtenus dans l鈥檈xercice de leurs fonctions par les personnes ayant une relation de travail avec l鈥檜niversit茅 " (art.15 LU)

La directive UNIGE 芦 Int茅grit茅 dans la recherche scientifique 禄

These specify (under section 2.6 "donn茅es de base") that:

  • good data management and documentation is required
  • defining who can access them after the research project's end should be anticipated
  • how research data should be kept secure for 5 years minimum after the end of the research project.

"Les donn茅es relatives 脿 l鈥檃vancement de la recherche et les r茅sultats des exp茅riences originelles (鈥渄onn茅es de base鈥) doivent 锚tre document茅s de mani猫re claire, compl猫te et pr茅cise, selon les r猫gles de chaque discipline, afin d鈥檈xclure autant que possible tout dommage, toute perte ainsi que toute manipulation cibl茅e. Il en va de m锚me pour les donn茅es 茅lectroniques (sauvegarde des donn茅es sur CD-ROM, etc.) et pour la documentation originale des projets de recherche indiqu茅e dans le protocole de recherche.
(...)
Pour chaque projet, il convient 茅galement de d茅finir, au pr茅alable, le cercle des participants qui auront encore acc猫s aux donn茅es de base au terme de leur collaboration au projet ou de leurs rapports avec l鈥橴niversit茅, et de pr茅ciser les fins pour lesquelles ils auront le droit d鈥檈xploiter ces donn茅es.
Le responsable de projet doit veiller 脿 ce que les donn茅es de base soient conserv茅es en s茅curit茅 pendant cinq ans au moins apr猫s le terme de la recherche. Au cas o霉 il quitterait l鈥橴niversit茅, le responsable de projet doit s鈥檃ssurer que les donn茅es de base continueront 脿 锚tre conserv茅es de mani猫re appropri茅e au sein de l鈥橴niversit茅."听 (Directive, point 2.6)

Under section 3.2.1, the guidelines also list some infractions linked to research data.