last month a journalistic investigation
uncovered that Switzerland's Federal
intelligence service is allegedly
monitoring the digital activities of its
citizens reports alleg the SRC is
collecting analyzing and storing the
emails chat messages and search queries
of all the swis people according to
German language media republic. CH since
the new intelligence act came into force
in 2017 the internet traffic of Swiss
citizens has been analyzed on a massive
scale what's more all the data is
recorded with a view to possible
retroactive searches the law was
approved by 65% of the population and
its aim was to use new communication
Technologies to combat terrorism in
particular it makes it possible to
connect to the cables and fibers of
various internet providers and thus
decrypt exchanges made on the internet
once this was uncovered a lot of people
showed concerns about the collection of
this data which is disproportionate and
incompatible with the principles of the
rule of law in a democracy such as
Switzerland the SRC denies these
accusations but what do you think follow
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