Two years after the Swiss administration decided to move its entire IT system to Microsoft’s cloud, opposition is growing.
Critics warn of risks to data protection and national sovereignty, as official emails, calendars, and documents would pass through the American company’s servers.
The Federal Court of Auditors has already flagged weak security checks, while the army is firmly against the plan.
Chief of the Armed Forces Thomas Süssli has called the tools “unusable,” since most military data is classified. He’s urging Switzerland to develop its own secure cloud solution instead.
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