Following the implementation of EU

European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...

 Directive 95/46/EC

Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of personal data

The Data Protection Directive is a European Union directive which regulates the processing of personal data within the European Union...

, regarding the protection of individuals with regards to the process of personal information

Information

Information in its most restricted technical sense is a message or collection of messages that consists of an ordered sequence of symbols, or it is the meaning that can be interpreted from such a message or collection of messages. Information can be recorded or transmitted. It can be recorded as...

 and the movement of such, the Danish Data Protection Agency was created.

The agency exercises surveillance over the processing of data

Data

The term data refers to qualitative or quantitative attributes of a variable or set of variables. Data are typically the results of measurements and can be the basis of graphs, images, or observations of a set of variables. Data are often viewed as the lowest level of abstraction from which...

to which the act applies, however the agency primarily deals in specific cases on the basis of inquiries from public authorities or private individuals or cases taken up by the agency on its own initiative.