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Revision of Swiss surveillance law VÜPF would directly target VPN & encrypted chat and email providers based in Switzerland.

Revision of Swiss surveillance law VÜPF would directly target VPN & encrypted chat and email providers based in Switzerland.

  • r4venw@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    6 days ago

    This isn’t a necessarily me arguing with you, just some thoughts.

    • We have already seen multiple instances of law enforcement misusing technology (Flock, for example) with or without a warrent. Before these technologies, it was a lot less convenient to do this.
    • It is illegal to open someone else’s mail without permission. I think this is the case in a lot of places? We don’t have a similar digital concept (probably because the post office is a government service and digital stuff is corporate).
    • Before this technological era, if the police wanted to wiretap someone or follow them, they wouldn’t immediately have access to every single thing theyve said or done before that point in time. I think that is also quite important if we’re comparing/contrasting
    • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
      5·
      6 days ago

      We have already seen multiple instances of law enforcement misusing technology (Flock, for example) with or without a warrent. Before these technologies, it was a lot less convenient to do this.

      And that goes further into government. Do you trust your government to see everything you ever wrote? And if you do trust this government, do you still trust it when their opponents win?

      There’s also the psychological impact. Just knowing you’re being watched is taxing in several different ways.

      • Kissaki@feddit.orgEnglish
        4·
        5 days ago

        It’s also worth it to distinguish between government, police, prosecution, and secret agencies. Just one of them has to be malicious/untrustworthy/incompetent, with enough conformity/disinterest by the others - the latter of which is often a given. It’s not just one party or agency and attack vector we become vulnerable to.