Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US | Tuta
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Revision of Swiss surveillance law VÜPF would directly target VPN & encrypted chat and email providers based in Switzerland.

The proposed update to Switzerland’s Ordinance on the Surveillance of Postal and Telecommunications Traffic (VÜPF: Verordnung über die Überwachung des Post- und Fernmeldeverkehrs) represents a significant expansion of state surveillance powers, worse than the surveillance powers of the USA. If enacted, it would have serious consequences for encrypted services such as Threema, an encrypted WhatsApp alternative and Proton Mail as well as VPN providers based in Switzerland.

  • artyomEnglish
    1•26 days ago

    I mean to my knowledge the US hasn’t tried to force encryption backdoors recently?

      • artyomEnglish
        2•26 days ago

        Which has nothing to do with encryption?

          • artyomEnglish
            2•26 days ago

            a government agency can surely decrypt it if they truly wanted to

            They can’t. Not using any known technology. Even basic encryption like AES256 would take 10^50 years on a supercomputer. That’s not even getting into quantum-resistant encryption.