Nowadays for a variety of reasons personal information is collected which may interfere with an individual’s privacy. To enhance the careful management of personal information and to make it possible for an individual to monitor that management, in The Netherlands a specific law was enacted. Health care providers who have to process many medical records when treating patients also have to follow this law. The organization responsible for implementing this law and for ensuring that it is properly carried out is the College for the Protection of Personal Information. At the website of this organization, myprivacy.nl, valuable information is available on the implications of this law for the maintenance of patients’ health care records.