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From the post:
>Switzerland has long been marketed as a privacy paradise outside of the EU and the Five Eyes. A new revision of the Ordinance on the Surveillance of Postal and Telecommunications Traffic (VÜPF), now under discussion in Bern, threatens to flip that narrative on its head – especially for Swiss-based VPN providers like ProtonVPN and PrivadoVPN.
Based on the draft analyzed by encrypted email provider Tuta Mail, the update would require Swiss email and VPN services with as few as 5,000 users to log IP addresses for six months, identify customers with official documents, and be technically able to deliver data to authorities in plain text. Privacy advocates argue this could make Swiss surveillance powers harsher than in the US or EU and fundamentally undermine the value of “Swiss jurisdiction” as a privacy shield.
Archive: https://archive.today/EIxxO
From the post:
>>Switzerland has long been marketed as a privacy paradise outside of the EU and the Five Eyes. A new revision of the Ordinance on the Surveillance of Postal and Telecommunications Traffic (VÜPF), now under discussion in Bern, threatens to flip that narrative on its head – especially for Swiss-based VPN providers like ProtonVPN and PrivadoVPN.
Based on the draft analyzed by encrypted email provider Tuta Mail, the update would require Swiss email and VPN services with as few as 5,000 users to log IP addresses for six months, identify customers with official documents, and be technically able to deliver data to authorities in plain text. Privacy advocates argue this could make Swiss surveillance powers harsher than in the US or EU and fundamentally undermine the value of “Swiss jurisdiction” as a privacy shield.