You're not allowed to open letters or listen in on conversations. civilized countries. In fact, poor postman Emil would soon be in trouble; but his digital "competitors", the email mail carriers, are doing the same thing as Emil with complete impunity and with state support throughout the western world. And no one seems to be surprised or even take action against it.
If I write a Gmail to a friend today and tell him that I want to buy a new watch, tomorrow I will have offers for watches from all over the world on all websites and in my digital mailbox. If I look uae rcs data up a price for a car on the Internet today, I will be followed for weeks by ads and offers from car manufacturers or dealers. So someone is reading along and taking advantage! Or am I mistaken? What lands postman Emil in jail brings postman "digital" millions, even billions, in commissions. One of the first and most important basic human rights, the secrecy of posts and telecommunications, has been completely undermined within 15 years. Are we - the citizens - no longer interested in it at all? But then we must also remove the secrecy of posts and telecommunications from the constitution.
In the last column, I wrote about the Big Five data collectors (Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook). And I was happy that Google had broken the iron rule that an elephant doesn't care if a mouse squeaks. The press officer for Google Switzerland asked for a clarification on my April column and got one on persoenlich.