Following parliament’s rejection of a deal to solve the United States tax evasion dispute, there are grave doubts in both Switzerland and the US that serious damage to the Swiss financial system can be prevented.  [...]

The Swiss government has described the systematic internet monitoring allegedly practised by the US intelligence service, NSA, as an “excessive infringement of the private sphere”, whose protection is guaranteed by the federal constitution.  [...]

City of London police have charged a former UBS trader with eight counts of conspiracy to defraud, as part of the investigation into the manipulation of the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, uncovered last year.  [...]

A vast collection of live concert footage and audio spanning the entire 46-year history of the Montreux Jazz Festival - featuring the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin and Prince - has been given UNESCO heritage status.  [...]

The Swiss data protection commissioner and government privacy officials from a handful of other countries have written to Google to raise privacy concerns about its wearable computing eyewear, Glass.  [...]