Parliament has thrown out a draft law enabling Swiss banks to hand over confidential data to the United States for cracking down on suspected tax cheats. However, it called on the cabinet to find legal means to resolve the standoff.  [...]

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.  [...]