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by Squeeeez 259 days ago
Note that when the Swiss government says "handled by the state" it means it will usually be handled by the lowest-bidding consulting company.
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Which needs to follow a mandate of properly handling user data (Switzerland has a law that's very close to GDPR) and properly respecting privacy as written in the proposal.

Not doing so is something the citizens can sue the government for - as opposed to US "private company can collect whatever, whenever and do whatever" (see credit ratings).