Privacy or security? Swiss voters back new mass surveillance laws

‘Voters in Switzerland have endorsed new laws extending the authority of the country’s spy agencies to monitor internet traffic, tap phones, deploy spy drones and hack foreign computer systems to combat militant attacks.
The new laws had been passed by parliament in September 2015 but Switzerland’s system of direct democracy means voters must give the final go ahead to such changes and on Sunday some 65.5 percent of voters endorsed the legislation, although only 43 percent of voters took part in the poll.’
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