"Data storage within Switzerland offers no protection against American laws, Privatim argues. The manual published by the Swiss data protection authority in Zurich concludes that government agencies are acting unconstitutionally when they entrust sensitive citizen data to providers subject to the US CLOUD Act. The law gives US investigative services access to data, even when it is physically located in Switzerland. This makes cloud services from major US providers unusable for Swiss schools, hospitals, and police forces."
"The US CLOUD Act of 2018 allows US authorities to request data from tech companies, regardless of where the servers are located. This creates an unsolvable conflict for Swiss regulators. Data in Zurich is subject to Swiss privacy protection, but at the same time to US subpoena law. This conflicts with the sovereign cloud initiatives of the major US cloud platforms, which aim to offer solutions with these initiatives."
Privatim has moved to prohibit Microsoft, Amazon, and Google’s American cloud services for government agencies. The US CLOUD Act permits US authorities to obtain data from US companies regardless of server location, creating a legal conflict with Swiss privacy protections. Zurich’s data protection authority concludes that entrusting sensitive citizen data to US-subject providers violates constitutional protections. The ban covers data under professional secrecy, including medical, tax, social security, and education records. Public-sector CIOs must choose between on-premises hosting or strictly European providers. Encryption is considered insufficient for modern SaaS because providers need plaintext access to render services.
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