Something happened in Switzerland in mid-November that hardly anyone expected in this form: The country's data protection commissioners passed a clear, almost historic resolution. The message behind it is simple - and at the same time highly controversial: public authorities should no longer outsource their most sensitive data to international cloud services such as Microsoft 365 without hesitation. Why is that?<\/p>\n
Because responsibility for particularly confidential data - health records, social cases, criminal investigations, internal documents - must not be handed over to companies that can never technically completely rule out access to this data. This is precisely the essence of the Swiss decision. You don't have to be deeply involved in IT to understand the basic idea. In the past, important files were stored in a locked filing cabinet in the town hall. Today, the same data is often stored somewhere abroad - on the servers of large US corporations, which in turn use their own partner companies and subcontractors. And even if these providers assure us that everything is secure, the authorities themselves can no longer really check this.<\/p>\n