E-ID Opponents Table Their September Arguments in June

BERN - Opponents of the e-ID act told a packed briefing that a state-backed electronic identity still leans on private contractors and stores too much. The government repeated that opening a bank account or dealing with an authority should not require a paper pile.

Switzerland has already fought this fight once. The new version was sold as the lesson learned. Privacy campaigners said the lesson was incomplete.

A second item on the same Sunday

The second-home tax decree shares 28 September. Campaigners on that file were not in the room. They will be on the same poster walls in August.