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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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[–] george@feddit.org 30 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Aren’t they also the ones trying to pass laws to remove the encryption from Proton/Threema and so on?

[–] helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 minutes ago

It's almost like we're a multiparty democracy or something.

The press and others tend to report proposals by one part or another as though they have already been passed into law. I think it makes for better headlines.

And Andy Yen uses it for what agenda he has, like moving into cheaper German data centres or whatever.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 19 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The cynic in me says this is an attempt to force private keys in-country and Swiss Datacenters which would then be subject to their laws and could be easier subpoenaed

[–] holomorphic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

That's not how the swiss government works.

Here the data protection officers are mostly independent of the rest of the government and are just doing their (somewhat hopeless) job. Of course "warn[ing] public bodies" is about all they are can do.