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Swiss Government Backs Privacy Oriented ISP

Posted by samzenpus on from the eyes-on-your-own-screen dept.

judgecorp writes "The Swiss government owned telco Swisscom is pitching a "Swiss Cloud" operator which promises to keep customers' credentials private in the wake of the NSA spying scandal. Switzerland has strict privacy laws, with which the Swisscom cloud complies, and the operator now wants to offer that more widely."

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  1. Re:the Swiss don't need you by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There's the issue.

    What issue?

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  2. This is going to be huge by comrade1 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I live in Switzerland. I was never quite happy with the european cloud computing providers I found because they were based in places like the uk, france, etc. Eventually I did find a swiss company but they were small and not feature-rich (compared to aws). I've worked with swisscom in the past on tech projects and they are extremely competent. I look forward to see what they come up with. And related to this, I've been looking into investments that will take advantage of europeans moving their data back to europe and requirements/laws for purchasing non-u.s. networking equipment. I found some good investments for companies on the hardware side, and I think this might be a good investment on the computing side.

  3. And how can they guarantee that by mark_reh · · Score: 4, Interesting

    the NSA and other spy agencies aren't able to get at their traffic? Swiss privacy laws protect against legal attacks, not NSA attacks.

  4. Re:strict privacy laws my ass! by pixelpusher220 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wasn't one of Snowden's 'triggers' to his document releases the blatant rights violations of the Swiss at the behest of the NSA?

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