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Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US: Revision of Swiss surveillance law VÜPF would directly target VPN & encrypted chat and email providers based in Switzerland.
Revision of Swiss surveillance law VÜPF would directly target VPN & encrypted chat and email providers based in Switzerland.
ID or driver’s license, maybe a phone number, are required for the registration process of various services - rendering the anonymous usage impossible. Using a Swiss app because of its good level of data protection would become obsolete, and this would affect even small companies as well as open source projects operated from Switzerland. In Switzerland, a country known for its love for secrecy, particularly when it comes to banking, the tides have turned: An update to the VÜPF surveillance law directly targets privacy and anonymity services such as VPNs as well as encrypted chat apps and email providers.
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