Swiss ISPs Must Archive E-mail For 6 Months

the_danielsan writes: "I first thought this (this ain't yellow press) would be a joke, but apparently swiss ISPs are now enforced to monitor all outgoing mails up to a period of 6 month - at their own cost! sunrise, a larger ISP, speaks of 50,000 to 100,000 CHF (that's about 31,405 to 62,810 USD according to my currency calculator) to update their systems. heise Newsticker has the same story running (both German). I can't believe this." For non-German readers, babelfish does a decent job with these articles.

Comments

Re:Curse of Socialism

[zpengo]

Ahem, Carnivore, Echelon, DMCA, facial recognition cameras... the U.S. has been pioneering a heck of a lot more of surveilance on the public than a lot of these European countries.

We're not pioneering it, we're just talking about it more. We fight the things that most Europeans take for granted.

Re:What?

[zpengo]

Your knowledge of international politics comes from a blurb in a CIA-funded reference that most school children find overly simplistic?