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Big Brother is watching Switzerland!
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this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2025
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It's limited by law to official services anyway. Your online shopping platform can't ask you for E-ID verification.
E-ID is one thing we got right this (the second) time, imo.
If you're pro-privacy, better fight against the inconstitutional VDS (complaint in EGMR still pending for years now).
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Do you think this may change in the future? Because, change in such law is what potentially makes this predatory.
Such limit to this law is the best case scenario. And definitely something I'll support, but the chance it might extend further is what holds me and others away from this.
Unlikely. This country takes it's health data sensibility very seriously for tens of years now. Deterioration of such things would be seen as an abuse of trust by the people and the political allies. That's one thing that still mostly works here.
First, one piece: the means; Next, the second piece: the law