[kictanet] Fwd: [Internet Policy] Swiss referendum on new surveillance law

[Barrack Otieno]

Listers,

Interesting developments in Switzerland.

Regards

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From: Richard Hill <rhill at hill-a.ch>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 11:13:33 +0200
Subject: [Internet Policy] Swiss referendum on new surveillance law
To: internetpolicy at elists.isoc.org

The referendum on the new Swiss surveillance law resulted in a vote of 65%
in favor of the law.  That is, only 35 of the people voted against the law.
In my opinion, that is a low score.

The low score against the law is probably due largely to the fact that the
government, and the political parties supporting the law, assured voters
that the law will not be used to institute mass surveillance, and that at
most 10-20 individuals per year will be targeted for surveillance.

So the referendum and the resulting public debate was useful in that it
resulted in a clear statement regarding the intended scale of the permitted
surveillance.

Opponents of the law must now carefully observe its implementation to ensure
that the assurances given during the referendum campaign are kept.

Best,
Richard

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