People’s online privacy and digital integrity under threat in Switzerland and beyond

Nym’s call to action to defend our digital rights

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A new digital surveillance ordinance in Switzerland is being proposed that would require telecommunication companies in the country, including encrypted email providers like Proton and VPNs like NymVPN, to collect identification from people using their services. Egregiously, it also demands a backdoor on encrypted content.

As a privacy provider, NymVPN believes this would be a violation of people’s rights to online privacy and digital integrity without democratic referendum. As Alexis Roussel, Nym’s Chief Operating Officer, has put it in a public statement:

“This ordinance profoundly alters the spirit of the law. But the Federal Council has chosen the path not subject the ordinance to a referendum in order to push through its demands. At a time when the Swiss are celebrating the success of leading privacy-preserving companies such as Proton and Threema, when the army itself has chosen to use Threema, and when other promising players, such as Nym, are emerging in the field of privacy-friendly technologies and the protection of people's digital integrity, this ordinance by the Federal Council is destroying an entire sector.”

Read the full statement below, and what you can do to help prevent it.

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