Digital society (Switzerland)
| Digital Society (DigiGes) |
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| purpose | Defense of fundamental and human rights in the digital space |
| President: | Norbert Bollow |
| Executive Director: | Erik Schönenberger |
| Establishment date: | 2011 |
| Number of members: | 650 (2020) |
| Seat : |
Basel Switzerland
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| Website: | digital-gesellschaft.ch |
The digital society, or DigiGes for short , is a non-profit organization in Switzerland . It aims to maintain and promote a free, open and sustainable digital society. It is particularly committed to the protection and defense of fundamental and human rights in the digital space, but also operates consumer protection.
As a freely available service for the public, the digital society operates several Tor servers, including in Switzerland, as well as DoH and DoT DNS services to increase the privacy and security of users.
Apart from numerous subject interests, the association has no similarities with the German Digital Society .
background
The association has existed since the beginning of 2011. The focus is on six-monthly meetings in Bremgarten AG in Switzerland for the purpose of coordination and networking. There is also a monthly network policy lunch in Zurich, Bern, Basel and Lucerne, as well as constant communication via an encrypted mailing list (“Schleuder”), a wiki and BigBlueButton . There are also various internal specialist groups, for example on network neutrality . The lawyers Viktor Györffy, Martin Steiger and Simon Schlauri work for the digital society in legal matters. Erik Schönenberger is the managing director .
Members include the Chaos Computer Club Switzerland (CCC-CH), the Chaos Computer Club Zurich (CCC ZH), CH Open , the Digital Allmend , the association grundrechte.ch , the Internet Society , Opendata.ch , the Pirate Party Switzerland (PPS) and the Wau Holland Foundation directly or indirectly. The Swiss Privacy Foundation (SPF) was integrated into the digital society in autumn 2016.
activities
The digital society had already published a comprehensive statement on net neutrality in 2016 . Based on this, a draft law was drawn up for the debate in parliament, after the Federal Council only wanted to introduce a transparency requirement. In 2018 it was then possible to put an obligation for net neutrality into the law. The revised Telecommunications Act (LTC) will come into force in 2020.
In spring 2015, the digital society sent an open letter to politicians , including Amnesty International and the Foundation for Consumer Protection, against two new surveillance laws. The main criticisms of the laws were data retention and cable surveillance.
The association filed a complaint against the cable investigation in autumn 2017. The proceedings are currently pending at the Federal Administrative Court .
At the end of February 2014, the digital company had already lodged a complaint against data retention in Switzerland. The appeal was dismissed by the federal court in April 2018 . This judgment was referred to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in September 2018 .
The association also participated in the resistance to the total revision of the federal law on the surveillance of postal and telecommunications traffic (BÜPF) and the new Intelligence Service Act (NDG). He also campaigned against network blocking for foreign gaming providers.
In the summer of 2013, based on the revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden , the association filed a criminal complaint against unknown persons for illegal intelligence and other criminal offenses with the federal prosecutor's office . The Federal Prosecutor's Office has not investigated further.
The digital society regularly takes part in consultations, for example on the revised Telecommunications Act, the new Gambling Act and the revised Copyright Act. From October 2013, the digital society was represented in the “Net neutrality” working group of the Federal Office of Communication .
In April 2014, the digital society published a visualization of the data retention in Switzerland after the Green National Council Balthasar Glättli had made his data retention from six months of monitoring available.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ List of donations from the Canton of Basel-Stadt (PDF)
- ↑ swissinfo.ch on July 8, 2011, On the way to the Transparent Man? .
- ↑ a b Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) of July 8, 2013, Digital Society - Criminal charges filed for Prism .
- ^ Federal government wants to allow state Trojans - TV - Play SRF. Retrieved April 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Net neutrality should be included in the law: "The provider code is a foggy petard". Netzwoche, March 31, 2016, accessed on July 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Pascal Sigg, Andres Eberhard and Joel Bedetti: The Wind of Change. June 2017. Retrieved July 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Net neutrality serves consumers and the economy. Accessed April 16, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Switzerland receives legally established net neutrality. Accessed April 16, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Telecommunications Act (FMG). In: The Swiss Parliament. Federal Assembly, March 22, 2019, accessed on April 16, 2020 .
- ^ Open letter on the BÜPF Surveillance Act and the new Intelligence Service Act - Digital Society . In: Digital Society . ( Digitale-gesellschaft.ch [accessed on April 15, 2018]).
- ↑ Briefly explained: fact sheet on «cable education»
- ↑ Digital society takes to court for cable investigation | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . October 31, 2017, ISSN 0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed April 13, 2018]).
- ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) of February 21, 2014, Netzpolitik - Digitale Gesellschaft files a complaint against data retention
- ↑ Kathrin Alder: The Federal Supreme Court has ruled: The storage of telephone data is permitted | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . April 3, 2018, ISSN 0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed April 13, 2018]).
- ↑ heise online: Civil rights activists complain against mass surveillance of all Swiss people without cause. Retrieved December 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Digital Society Switzerland: Surveillance in and from Switzerland: The full program . Digitalcourage eV. August 18, 2015. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
- ↑ Opponents of the Gambling Act warn against internet blocks. In: Southeast Switzerland / SDA. Retrieved December 11, 2018 .
- ↑ NSA lawsuit: That is why the federal prosecutor does not want to investigate
- ↑ Failure to do so: Federal Prosecutor recognizes no criminal act by NSA, GCHQ & Co.
- ↑ Digital Society on December 22, 2013, OFCOM's net neutrality working group .
- ^ Digital Society on April 27, 2014, data retention - The monitored life of National Councilor Balthasar Glättli
- ↑ Watson on April 27, 2014, Where has Mr. Glättli been for the last six months? .
- ↑ Switzerland on Sunday April 27, 2014, The Glass National Council .
- ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) on April 27, 2014, What the reserve data reveal .