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by WhyNotHugo 771 days ago
Switzerland does have strict laws on the topic. Data requests are only honoured for cases which are a crime both under the foreign country's law and under Swiss law.

If you live in a country where homosexuality is illegal, and your local government is chasing you because of this, a Swiss company won't comply with data requests, and a Swiss judge has no reason to honour any data request.

If your local government is chasing you because of something that is recognised as a crime in Switzerland, then they will disclose data to foreign authorities.

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Funny thing this is how Algeria try to get info from Facebook about dissidents and journalists they label them as terrorists and Facebook will comply.
Knowing this, couldn't the foreign country forge the case to look like something that's also illegal in Switzerland?