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> The court confirmed that email services can’t be considered telecommunications providers in Switzerland, and therefore are not subject to data retention requi
by dane-pgp 5y ago
> The court confirmed that email services can’t be considered telecommunications providers in Switzerland, and therefore are not subject to data retention requirements.
That's a great development. I think I read previously that their VPN service was also not covered by the data retention requirement, which meant that they were in the odd position of hiding your IP address from themselves. Bootstrapping the sign-up process for that using Tor and cryptocurrency might have been a bit difficult though.
- infogulch 5y ago> email services can’t be considered telecommunications providers It's nice that they won the case, but now I wonder if this ruling may deprive them of other rights, that seems like a broad category that may be used in other laws.
- southerntofu 5y agoIt's good to see even if they're not willing to take risks for their users, they're still dedicating some resources to fight unjust laws (in court not in real life, but that's still something).