{"slug": "switzerland-ai-law-policy-updates", "title": "Switzerland — AI Law & Policy Updates", "summary": "Switzerland has no AI-specific federal law, as confirmed by a query of the Bundeskanzlei's Systematic Compilation on 2026-09-02, which found no enactment with 'künstliche Intelligenz' in its title. Instead, AI deployers are bound by general federal law, including the revised Bundesgesetz über den Datenschutz (DSG, SR 235.1) of 25 September 2020, in force since 1 September 2023, and the Datenschutzverordnung (DSV, SR 235.11) of 31 August 2022, with competition and unfair-marketing rules under the Kartellgesetz (KG, SR 251) and the Bundesgesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb of 19 December 1986.", "body_md": "Bundesgesetz vom 25. September 2020 über den Datenschutz (DSG, SR 235.1) · Verordnung vom 31. August 2022 über den Datenschutz (DSV, SR 235.11) · Bundesgesetz vom 6. Oktober 1995 über Kartelle und andere Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen (KG, SR 251) — **Status: No AI-specific federal instrument — measured against the Systematic Compilation (2026-09-02)**\n\nSwitzerland has no artificial-intelligence act, and this is now a standing measurement rather than a desk finding: the Bundeskanzlei's own Systematic Compilation was queried on 2026-09-02, restricted to instruments whose enforcement status is 'in force', and no federal enactment carries 'künstliche Intelligenz' in its title. That agrees with the Federal Office of Justice's own statement that there is no specific Swiss AI legislation. What binds an AI deployer is general federal law. The revised Bundesgesetz über den Datenschutz of 25 September 2020 (SR 235.1) entered into force on 1 September 2023, replacing the 1992 Act, and governs the personal data an AI system processes; the Datenschutzverordnung of 31 August 2022 (SR 235.11) entered into force the same day and carries the operational detail — Switzerland's regulation layer for this subject is real, and it is an ordinance rather than an AI statute. Competition exposure runs through the Kartellgesetz of 6 October 1995 (SR 251) and, for deceptive automated marketing, the Bundesgesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb of 19 December 1986. ⚠️ A caution that matters here more than anywhere else in this corpus: more than half of the Swiss Systematic Compilation consists of REPEALED consolidations, and the 1992 data-protection Act is still served by the same database under a 'no longer in force' status. Every instrument listed above was filtered on that status at query time, so none of them is a superseded text.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/switzerland-ai-law-policy-updates", "canonical_source": "https://ai-law-tracker.com/global/switzerland", "published_at": "2026-09-02 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-02 16:53:07.322983+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy"], "entities": ["Bundeskanzlei", "Federal Office of Justice", "Bundesgesetz über den Datenschutz (DSG)", "Datenschutzverordnung (DSV)", "Kartellgesetz (KG)", "Bundesgesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/switzerland-ai-law-policy-updates", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/switzerland-ai-law-policy-updates.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/switzerland-ai-law-policy-updates.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/switzerland-ai-law-policy-updates.jsonld"}}