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Swiss government urges people to ditch Microsoft 365 and others due to lack of proper encryption (www.techradar.com)
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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.

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[–] 16 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Windscribe are a bit late to the game -https://x.com/windscribecom/status/1995619967996494334

They are twittering today quoting an article that was published 3+ months ago.

Proton is moving out of Switzerland because of their new surveillance laws. So much for Switzerland being some bastion of privacy huh? That makes Canada a better place for a VPN. Stop drinking the marketing koolaid.

Judging by the direction that Switzerland seems to be going, I am guessing (I could be wayyyy wrong) that Swiss privacy companies are going to be still effective for people outside of Switzerland, soon to be completely free from US big tech spying. Canada are in the 5 eyes, whereas Switzerland aren't even mentioned in the 14 eyes.

As for Canada being a better place for the Privacy or a VPN, I think Windscribe need to stop drinking their own nonsense.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Damn. I remember seeing a Reddit AMA when I first came across Protonmail some 7-odd years ago with the Protonmail CEO saying something along the lines of "we don't plan on moving out of Switzerland because other country's intelligence agencies concern us more than the Swiss intelligence" and I thought that was a good take. Hell, I still do in lieu of everything going on.

    I wonder what happens now that they will be "physically diversifying across Europe".

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