Switzerland: We allow the government to monitor us

Χθες οι Ελβετοί ψηφοφ decided with a majority of 66,5% to give to most spying powers in their daily lives.

Last year, the country's parliament passed a law that allowed their secret service, FIS (Federal Intelligence Service), to have more powers to spy on emails h, phones, or even use hidden cameras and microphones.

These technologies and investigation and monitoring procedures are common practice in other countries, but they were outlawed by the strict Swiss government.swiss-flag government

The law, which the government claimed was necessary after the devastating attacks in Paris by ISIS, was challenged by privacy groups and Swiss left-wing political parties that delayed its implementation and forced the government to hold a referendum that had taken place on Sunday.

So the Swiss population, trying to protect itself against rising threats from terrorist groups, has voted to sacrifice private life for security reasons.

Switzerland, next to Germany and the Nordic countries, has some of the strictest privacy laws in Europe. To such an extent that it took years since to get permission to map the country through the Street View service.

The FIS secret service, dealing with internal and external cyber-espionage while gaining the extra powers, will need special permission from the court, the defense ministry, and the cabinet to begin every internal surveillance operation, according to with SwissInfo.

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