Swiss cloud firms - the new Swiss bank account?

Stuart Sumner
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With data privacy fears at an all-time high following Prism, FISA and the Patriot Act, can Swiss cloud firms join their financial services compatriots in offering truly private services?

In the 1997 film The Spanish Prisoner, Steve Martin's conman creates a Swiss bank account with only 15 Swiss francs in it. "If you ever want to impress anybody, they can find out you have a Swis...

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