The Conference of Swiss Data Protection Officers, Privatim, has severely restricted the usability of international cloud services – particularly hyperscalers like AWS, Google, or Microsoft – for federal authorities in a resolution. At its core, the resolution from Monday amounts to a de facto ban on the use of these services as comprehensive Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions whenever particularly sensitive or legally confidential personal data is involved. For the most part, authorities wil...