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Swiss foreign ministry says cloud safeguard works only partially as 2025 audit surfaces

RTS published a previously unreported summer 2025 audit at the Swiss foreign ministry: documents classified as internal sat in Microsoft’s cloud, and the ministry says the safeguard against classified uploads works only partially. Parliament has voted CHF 250 million for a Swiss Government Cloud.

Reported Editor-read RTS, 1 February 2026

What it does not test. Does not establish how many documents were exposed, that any was accessed, or that the position today matches what the summer 2025 audit found.

How this item counts. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. Disclosure of a 2025 audit; no ownership, operation or law question changes on the day. European Sovereignty Index

Correction, 2026-09-20. The news is RTS publishing a summer 2025 audit not previously public, not the audit itself; the headline read as though the audit were the event. The item said: “Swiss audit finds DFAE documents still reaching Microsoft’s US cloud”

How this item was made. Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-09-20. The editor read and corrected it on 2026-09-20. How the record is made

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