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I hold Proton CEO to his word. I will also terminate my paid account with Proton if they dont leave (to give weight to his word). And Swiss will be on my ban list as well for ANY online services.

Another day, another digital illiterate politician trying to regulate the digital world

Title needs a dash after Google, otherwise it reads weirdly

Proton didn't just market 'Swiss privacy,' they built real engineering around non-retention—no logs, no trackers, nothing to subpoena. If Switzerland erodes that, the only defensible move for actual privacy builders is to exit and redeploy somewhere the law aligns with technical reality. Anything else is security theater.

If law passes, if Proton leaves, what matters most isn't their press release—it's the engineers voting with their code and hardware locales.

What they would tout as their USP then? Ex-Swiss Privacy?

Techradar popped up a full screen something with "you may also want to read..." when i hit the browser back button.

Entshittification continues...

> a "major violation of the right to privacy" that will also harm the country's reputation and its ability to compete on an international level.

Exactly. Were the fear mongers and authoritarians so successful that the infected organism starts acting against its own wellbeing?

Who sponsored this??

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?

A lot of theater

And they will go where? To the Netherlands or Sweden? EU regulation applies there. They would have to go to Seychelles or Panama, but their servers would obviously still have to be elsewhere.

Switzerland would be useless if it can't remain a safe haven.

This law change died in the "Vernehmlassung" which is early in the process. It's dead with opposition from all sides of the political spectrum. It had no chance.

https://www.inside-it.ch/vupf-revision-faellt-in-der-vernehm...

No more "Swiss-Privacy" then.