Skjønt personvernbruddet er lite, begynner varslingen med å kontakte den registrerte.

Although the personal-data breach is small, notification begins by contacting the registered person.

Breakdown of Skjønt personvernbruddet er lite, begynner varslingen med å kontakte den registrerte.

• være: to be
• liten: small
• å: to
• med: with

Questions & Answers about Skjønt personvernbruddet er lite, begynner varslingen med å kontakte den registrerte.

What does skjønt mean here?

Here skjønt means although / even though.

It introduces a subordinate clause:

• Skjønt personvernbruddet er lite = Although the personal data breach is small/minor

A few useful notes:

• skjønt is somewhat formal or literary in many contexts.
• In modern Norwegian, learners will also often see:
  • selv om
  • enda / enda om in some contexts
• In legal or administrative writing, skjønt can sound natural.

So in this sentence, it works as a conjunction introducing a contrast.

Why is personvernbruddet written as one word?

Because Norwegian very often forms compound nouns as a single word.

Here the parts are:

• personvern = data protection / privacy protection
• brudd = breach
• personvernbrudd = data-protection breach / privacy breach
• personvernbruddet = the data-protection breach

This is very normal in Norwegian. Where English often uses several words, Norwegian often joins them into one compound.

Why does personvernbruddet end in -et?