Federal Supreme Court – Threema is not obliged to monitor and unencrypt data

In May 2020, the Swiss Federal Administrative Tribunal (FAT) upheld the appeal of Threema, the provider of the telephony and messaging app with the same name, against an instruction of the Federal Post and Telecommunications Surveillance Service to monitor and unencrypt marginal data in real-time (see our article here). In its ruling 2C_544/2020 of 29 April 2021, the Federal Supreme Court confirmed the FAT’s ruling.

Please find here the full article in German language.

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