What if Switzerland turns into a nosy state, accessing citizens’ communications? What if the encryption of our messages was weakened or even disappeared? What if our 5G phone was tracked to the nearest meter by the authorities? These dizzying questions seem absurd. But for the past few days, they have been seriously agitating the Swiss tech world. Why today? Because several orders of execution of the law on the monitoring of the correspondence by post and telecommunications (LSCPT) are in the course of revision. This Monday ended the consultation period for these texts. The opportunity to examine these issues that concern us all.
