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.
Aren’t they also the ones trying to pass laws to remove the encryption from Proton/Threema and so on?
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
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.
They should ditch Microsoft 365 due to lack of not sucking balls.
That’s like quitting Spotify now because you just realised it still doesn’t offer decent sound quality. It’s far from the only reason to quit using it and not a very good one.
I ditched it because it’s shit. I don’t need encryption. What - someone going to steal my fanfics? Let them, then I’d have 2 people reading them.
“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
That’s from Edward Snowden. Evidently no one is going to force you to jump through hoops to use encryption if you don’t think you stand to benefit from it. That being said, the “nothing to hide” argument can be a bit of a slippery slope.
Also reminds me of someone I knew, who was doing pure maths research (so, read about as much as your fanfic) and was storing their papers on Dropbox. When informed that that was a private US entity, would enable other entities to access that data, they said “but I want people to read my paper”. They are now furious about LLMs. Go figure.
