Matrix may not be safe but is Wire going to be safe from Chat Control? Most likely no. So I don't see how trading one surveillance state for another will help.
As far as I can tell it comes down to:
- are you afraid of foreign espionage
vs.
- are you afraid of your own government
Now, if my government knows everything there is about me and one day decides to crack down on dissidents or hand them out to another foreign power as it was done in WW2 with the Jews in the Netherlands? Well, that is on another level.
We have be down this road before. It never ends well.
Maybe it's been too long and people forget. My grandparents lived through WW2, from what they told me, the capacity for humans to inflict pain and suffering on other humans knows no bounds.
I do use Switzerland as an exit for my vpn though yes.
Truth is, Euros don't care about privacy. The endgame will probably be to host this stuff in the third world or something, like pirates do
Switzerland created a new set of surveillance laws in January, that far exceed anything inside the EU. Which means that EU laws are irrelevant, when talking about a company inside Switzerland - you should be talking about what they actually use!