Switzerland

News

16th January 2018

United Nations establishes landmark role for expert to investigate and report on right to privacy

2nd August 2017

Clear And Universal – The Right to Privacy at the 120th Session of the Human Rights Committee

14th December 2015

Swiss Government forced to reveal destinations, cost of surveillance exports

6th July 2015

Surveillance Company Hacking Team Exposed

29th May 2015

Swiss moves to curb surveillance exports an example to the EU

5th March 2014

Surveillance companies ditch Switzerland, but further action needed

31st October 2013

Dispatch from Geneva: Notes on a post-Snowden UN

4th October 2013

After Gamma revelations, Switzerland begins to debate export of surveillance tech

Examples of Abuse

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Swiss study finds Uber violates subject access rights

In a study of the data Uber collected on a Geneva driver who obtained his data via a Subject Access Request, the Gig Economy Project finds that the data is difficult for drivers to parse, contains many inaccuracies, and is incomplete. In addition, obtaining the data in the first place is near

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