• Switzerland’s Army chief Thomas Süssli wants to stop the introduction of Microsoft Office 365 in the army
• Confidential data should not be stored in the US cloud, so the software is hardly usable and too expensive
• He is calling for a separate, secure and private, Open Source-based IT solution - the Federal Chancellery is sticking with the Microsoft project for the time being
• The background to Süssli’s warning is also the US “Cloud Act”, which allows American authorities access to data - even if it is located in data centers outside the USA

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He [Süssli] is therefore calling for an exit strategy from the Microsoft cloud and the development of a private or open source-based solution. This is the only way for the army to retain full control over its data.

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