Kaspersky Lab Plans Swiss Data Center To Combat Spying Allegations, Report Says (reuters.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab plans to open a data center in Switzerland to address Western government concerns that Russia exploits its anti-virus software to spy on customers, according to internal documents seen by Reuters. Kaspersky is setting up the center in response to actions in the United States, Britain and Lithuania last year to stop using the company's products, according to the documents, which were confirmed by a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The action is the latest effort by Kaspersky, a global leader in anti-virus software, to parry accusations by the U.S. government and others that the company spies on customers at the behest of Russian intelligence.

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This doesn't really solve anything

[rsilvergun]

they would need to completely vacate Russia before I trusted them. Any country I buy security software from needs their head office & all their programmers in a country with strong privacy laws and an actual democracy. And yes, that probably excludes everyone outside the EU.

Re:This doesn't really solve anything

[Anonymous Coward]

You might want to seriously consider whether that's not merely based on a misperception. People are way more pessimistic than they need to be. For various contingent historical reasons, there are currently strong forces that want to undermine general trust in mass media and democratic institutions. These are in the minority but very loud, especially on the Internet. Moreover, new media have helped flooding us with mostly veridical but also mostly negative news. Taken together, these trends create the perception as if the world was currently in a bad state, whereas the contrary is true.

Take Germany, for instance. Germans are richer than they have ever been before, social injustice is also fairly low in absolute numbers (because of the good economy), the economy is booming, the unemployment rate is very low, customer protection is high, social security is also fairly high, etc., and yet the Germans can't stop whining about everything.

I'm not claiming that all is rosy, but the way people have started to emphasize and exaggerate every issue recently is not healthy.

You can take your datacenter out of Russia...

[mi]

You can take your datacenter out of Russia, but taking Russia our of your datacenter is much harder.

And harder still is to flush the FSB-agents and collaborators out of your personnel.

Re:Good solution

[bsolar]

It’s simply because data protection in Switzerland is granted at the Constitutional level (read: can be changed only with popular vote) and applies to data of legal entities (the EU equivalent is only for personal data as far as I know).