Is Switzerland to break away from the EU’s stance on mass surveillance?
At the end of May, the Swiss government abandoned its framework agreement with the EU, after negotiating for seven years. Bilateral relations with Brussels are frayed and at an all-time low. A few weeks after that (on June 13), the Swiss people voted in favour of the Federal Act on Combating Terror... Read more
AWS plans to expand its cloud in Switzerland
Amazon Web Services announced that they plan to build a cloud region or data center cluster in Switzerland. The move will support several local companies and the public sector organizations that will use the platform.
The announcement is just another move by AWS to expand in Europe. In recent ye... Read more
Red Hat: ‘It’s best for IBM to keep us as ‘Switzerland”.
IBM announced in October that it had acquired Red Hat for 34 billion dollars. Senior vice president of Customer Experience and Engagement at Red Hat, Marco Bill-Peter, now says he was shocked by the news. "We were all a little shocked, at least I was," says Bill-Peter, reports ZDNet.
Bill-Peter stat... Read more
First Transparency Center Kaspersky Lab inaugurated
Kaspersky Labs has opened its first Transparency Center. Data from European users is now entering data centres in Switzerland, where the servers process the data. In this way, the Russian company fights back against the critics who fear a conspiracy between the company and the Russian government.
Ka... Read more