If any swiss citizen read here, make your voice heard by responding to the public inquiry ;
Adresse pour l’envoi de questions
Jean-Louis Biberstein (responsable suppléant >Service SCPT, responsable Droit et contrôle de gestion)
Service Surveillance de la correspondance par poste et télécommunication
T +41 58 462 26 27
jean-louis.biberstein@isc-ejpd.admin.ch
Do we have to be swiss? If someone makes a template, I’d be very willing to send it ;p
Not sure, but forgeiners contacting them en masse might not be welcomed. Just to be clear I ain’t Swiss either I just speak French so I could read it. I believe you can also contact them in German.
I’m curious about what happens if illegal activity is detected from a VPN. If this results in a ban from a VPN provider, then for cases like Mullvad it’s simple: make a new account? If VPNs are required to trace it back to the original user and report them to authorities.. well I have no idea what it’s protecting against at that point. Seems dicey. I’d at least imagine if the threat model isn’t high tier, say your casual torrent user, it might be sufficient that it’s not worth the effort if the VPN is not in the same jurisdiction at the authorities in question? Lots of questions on my end about practical use of the VPN if said laws are passed in Switzerland.
This scary how much countrys in Europe is cracking down on basic freedom and privacy rights.
Not exclusively. Some ISPs enforce anti-piracy themself. They’ll respond to reports from anti-piracy orgs by warning their accused customers or even cutting off their internet access.
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When you’ve got every mom & pop privacy blog inventing usecases for VPNs … it tends to lead to confusion … unless you know exactly what questions to ask and where to find answers from. PG could be that place.
And why would that be? Any publicly available study/case on why ISPs don’t get dragged through the courts by customers fighting for their right to seed aXXo’s RIPs?
Proton threatens to leave Switzerland upon passage of new surveillance law
Leave Switzerland and go where exactly?
I would assume Iceland, Japan, and Norway could all be a viable option. Norway and Iceland still being within Europe but not part of the EU while still maintaining strong GDPR laws (or something similar).