Comment on Swiss government urges people to ditch Microsoft 365 and others due to lack of proper encryption

Babalugats@feddit.uk ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz ⁨55⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  It’s almost like we’re not a single monolithic entity or something. Go figure.

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• Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Hey, you can’t mass surveil our people, that’s our job!”

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  • AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In fairness a government should be the only entity surveilling people in its own borders under most any circumstances.

    I’m pretty opposed to most any kind of surveillance outside of warranted due process, and I don’t think that any domestic surveillance needs privacy for longer than it takes to do an investigation and prosecution.

    It’s when governments are allowed to do things in secret and outside of the law that the whole concept of the law is undermined.

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• freeman@feddit.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We have a lot of different political and government bodies. Like the “checks and balances” the US had. So when you read “Switzerland wants to…” it could be:

  • A survey of people living in Switzerland
  • A initiative (an official political vote done by the swiss citicens)
  • One big or multiple parties signing an agreement
  • A group of cantons or communal legislative or executive politicians
  • A group of semi-official people (like the conference of cantonal privacy-advocates (“Kantonale Datenschützer”, keine Ahnung wie all das Zeug auf Englisch heisst, Hilfe)
  • Our parliament or a comitee in it
  • Our other parliament or a comitee in it
  • The federal court
  • The federal chancelor
  • The federal government

  I probably forgot a few and misspelt a lot but you get the idea. And all of them are different elected or appointed persons, with their own opinions.

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• driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They want to spy on their people and protect their corporate interests.

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