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cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/privacy/p/704592/switzerland-plans-surveillance-worse-than-us-tuta
Revision of Swiss surveillance law VÜPF would directly target VPN & encrypted chat and email providers based in Switzerland.


This seems like old news to me. The consultation period to the VÜPF revision ran early this year. I remember because we voiced our issues with the revision through our business association Asut. Just looked it up, it was 29. Jan to 6. May.
Almost all the big parties were against it, only The Centre didn’t submit a statement : https://www.inside-it.ch/vupf-revision-faellt-in-der-vernehmlassung-komplett-durch-20250507
And the organization Digitale Gesellschaft has since collected 15000 signatures for a petition to the Federal Council : https://www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/2025/05/18/petition-demokratie-statt-ueberwachungsstaat-an-bundesrat-beat-jans-vorsteher-des-eidgenoessischen-justiz-und-polizeidepartements-ejpd/
I’m not against Tuta also taking a stance, it’s good if they do. Its just a bit weird that they marked it “Breaking News”. I just wanted to give some context that this is not a new thing, and people are working against the proposal already.