thank you Barrack, very interesting indeed....how do you give such assurances? if you meet the target, lets say in the first quarter, does that mean that the rest of the year there will be no more surveillance regardless of suspicious activities? mhhhh.... Kind Regards, *'Chance Favors the prepared mind'* - Louis Pasteur On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 1:50 AM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Listers,

Interesting developments in Switzerland.

Regards

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