i’m tired of seeing this everywhere. this article even fails to call “a new rule” for what it is, namely the VÜPF and VD-ÜPF.
this is a proposition, and hasn’t even been voted on yet. in my country, where we had the possibility of joining the EU three times and still with huge majority said no, voted on not getting extra summer holidays and a bunch of other weird and questionable shit - I can say with near certainty that this will not pass. especially not through the ständerat. we are a business focused country which pay for our intelligence from other nations and simply wouldn’t even have the capacity to do anything with all this data.
itsFOSS once again writing a short and inconclusive article to gain engagement through absolutely shit reporting. used to be a fan of them, but their quality is going down hill fast. they did a shitpiece on ai browsers for Linux which was the last straw for me. know your audience and stop releasing quantity material over good, well written and researched work.
All EU countries are slowly drifting to surveillance state due to privacy laws, or don’t allow encryption (uh what?), or block DNS providers, or whatever they come up with next.
It happens almost everywhere. Migrate to Linux if not done already and move along with your friends/family to a privacy services like ones from Proton.
Recently, Andy Yen said Proton will leave Switzerland if this law passes.
Nonetheless, Roussel confirmed to TechRadar that there has been significant push-back from political parties and Swiss companies.
Signs of hope, I guess.
The Federal Department of Justice and Police (FDJP), a Swiss authority responsible for overseeing law enforcement and public security, wants to impose a new rule that would grant it extensive surveillance powers over online communications.
Keep in mind, this change wouldn’t go to a vote in Parliament and could be ratified without much public disclosure. If enacted, private encrypted email and messaging services like Proton Mail, Threema, and others could be seriously affected. And don’t even get me started on what this could mean for VPN providers.
Moreover, users might be required to hand over personal information, like a phone number or official ID, making anonymous sign-ups nearly impossible.
And it gets even worse — organizations would be required to hand over user data in plain text when requested, except for messages that are securely end-to-end encrypted between users.
Say all the countries have privacy invasive rules. How can companies like Proton provide services? Build a server farm on the moon?
I remember the high seas servers once were hosted on balloons or boats at some point
