Switzerland is worried about data privacy

Swiss data protection officers have warned public bodies not to use cloud services from industry hyperscalers Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, due to a lack of true end-to-end encryption.

This comes as many SaaS vendors, especially those falling under the US Cloud Act, could be required to hand over data to US authorities, even if it’s stored in Switzerland.

  • freeman@feddit.orgEnglish
    11·
    7 hours ago

    We have a lot of different political and government bodies. Like the “checks and balances” the US had. So when you read “Switzerland wants to…” it could be:

    • A survey of people living in Switzerland
    • A initiative (an official political vote done by the swiss citicens)
    • One big or multiple parties signing an agreement
    • A group of cantons or communal legislative or executive politicians
    • A group of semi-official people (like the conference of all the cantons data protection officers (“Kantonale Datenschützer”, keine Ahnung wie all das Zeug auf Englisch heisst, Hilfe)
    • Our parliament or a comitee in it
    • Our other parliament or a comitee in it
    • The federal court
    • The federal chancelor
    • The federal government
    • And sometimes internetusers even mix some company into the bag, for example Proton.

    I probably forgot a few and misspelt a lot but you get the idea. And all of them are different elected or appointed persons, with their own opinions.