Switzerland would be useless if it can't remain a safe haven.
They can go anywhere in Europe, since that type of surveillance seems to be illegal
You can also read about the reaction to the verdict in 2017 (again in Danish): https://www.version2.dk/artikel/bombe-under-ti-aars-dansk-te... where the EU deems the Danish logging unlawful, and the police and the government reacts by ignoring the verdict and wanting even more logging. There is a bunch of followup and related links at the bottom. The site is a tech news site owned by the Danish Engineers Union.
There's a Wikipedia page on what is being logged and retained: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_retention#Denmark
It's somewhere between an over-interpretation of EU rules and a misunderstand of the usefulness of the collected data, but the end result is that every single person in Denmark is basically logged and tracked 24/7, unless they go completely offline.
Most hosting companies doesn't even really want colocation anymore, it's sort a niche product.
There are some places that have jellybean colocation offers (e.g. Hetzner does - notice their normal business is jellybean servers and they run their own data centers, so it looks like a no-brainer to fit colocation into that business model), but it only covers a small portion of colocation possibilities.
But typically colocation is just one of those products where every deal is fully custom. That's just how it is. So you have to buy enough of the product to make it worth the salesman's and engineer's time, meaning at least a couple hundred dollars a month worth.
By the way, the same is true for business internet access. If you pay the cheapest price for internet (as every residential user does), you get the same basic service as everyone else. But if you're willing to spedn enough money, your ISP will negotiate with you. And it's true for business transactions in general. You want five screws, grab the best match off the shelf. You want five million screws, we'll make them to your exact specifications boss. (Also related: If you owe the bank a hundred billion dollars, the bank has a problem.)
Of the ~10 parties with a chance of a seat at the parlament, absolutely none have any clue what so ever when it comes to IT security matters.
The major parties have multiple times attemted to push egregious laws like collecting all internet metadata in our country, and storing it for years. They argued it wouldn't be a risk because only authorized personel would have access...
Sheer luck has twarted those attempts.
It seems more crazy to believe that two, three or four parties can represent 80 million or more people. The truth is that many of the parties in countries like Norway and Denmark are all fairly similar. They mostly agree on the basics. Six of the twelve parties in Denmark are, in my mind, variations on Social Democrats. I'm sure many would disagree, but they vary on issues, that in countries like the US, would be considered implementation details or narrow topics.
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/a-dangero...
It was also Swedish EU commissioner who wants to ban end-to-end encrypted chats and brought various proposals to the EU for this.
The UK, US, Australia, and other capitalist flagships are all trying to do the same. Not to mention the Patriot Act.
Generally, this is because Swedes trust the state.
by transporting every cargo to USA for thorough inspection before flight.
The problem would be all the debris up there. Maybe destroying one satellite would destroy them all.
Probably not for Starlink. You’ve got mass-manufactured satellites in a constellation launched on a reüsable, profitable platform on one hand. And on the other hand you have experimental expendable ASAT weapons.
https://www.inside-it.ch/vupf-revision-faellt-in-der-vernehm...
Any legal system can pass a law saying "we revoke this previous law".
Then you layer these protections against multiple levels of government so they'd all have to be repealed together by separate legislatures before the government is allowed to do it, discouraging the attempt.
These are goods things.
It's original purpose, if I understand correctly, was to guarantee that fundamental rights were an essential part of the constitution and couldn't be amended away.
Wikipedia says that multiple countries appear to have adopted the principle: Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Uganda.
To prevent the government from ignoring the constitution, create remedies in each of the other branches of government. The US doesn't make this as strong as it should be. Constitutional challenges in the judiciary get shut down as a result of standing or sovereign immunity when that ought not to happen, and there should be a better mechanism for states to challenge federal constitutional violations.
The two-party system in the US is caused by first past the post voting. Use score voting instead. Not IRV, not some other nonsense, a rated voting system that removes the structural incentive to avoid spoilers by limiting the number of parties.
"The existing system isn't perfect" is why you improve it, not why you give up.
After the government passes a new law, opponents have 100 days to collect 50000 signatures. If they manage, the law will not take force until it's approved by a vote by the populace.
Best I could find as a non Swiss:
> Threema and Proton In the daily news of 'SRF', Jean-Louis Biberstein, the deputy head of the federal postal and telecommunications service, said that the requirements for service providers are not tightened, but merely specified. A company like Threema would have the same obligations as before after the revision. Threema contradicts this in a statement from the end of April. The Vüpf revision would force the company to abandon the principle of "only collecting as few data as technically required".
(From auto translation of report about this already failing to proceed.)
Is Federal Post the entity or is it a person, or a group in Swiss government seeking to take authority over information?
I didn't realize just how batshit crazy their CEO was, and how potentially unsafe I was wrt to this administration.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/1id5v21/does_pro...
Long story short, the CEO has publicly backed Trump, Vance, and other officials in this new regime.
For starters, they are Swiss nationals; they should be steering clear of advocating for US politicians, let alone fascist adjacent politicians.
How safe is my data for real? If I help someone with trans-affirming health or abortion help, will I be outed by Proton? That's the kind of questions I absolutely must ask after declarations from their CEO.
Or put more plainly, I switched to another VPN provider and killed my subscription after the comments were made public. I simply do not trust this company to shield me and my data as they claim they would. Maybe its overblown, but reputation is a big thing with a 'privacy affiliated systems network'. And their CEO burnt it.
This claim is not supported by your source. Do you have anything stronger than a Reddit thread?
juancroldan•3h ago