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Re:How to intercept all Wire voice and video calls by zokier on Friday January 20, 2017 @11:31AM (#13444909)
On a quick browse I found these two references to Switzerland:

Frontpage: "Swiss-based, EU hosted"

Bottom of the "Privacy" page: "Wire is based in Switzerland and is fully compliant with Swiss and EU data protection laws."

I don't think that is "making a big deal", or even misleading. Especially the frontpage reference is actually really honest.

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Re:How to intercept all Wire voice and video calls by tyingq on Friday January 20, 2017 @11:46AM (#13445021)
It's not outright dishonest, but it seems pretty clear why they like the word "Swiss", but generalize Ireland as "EU". I'm sure many of their customers read that as "Oh, it's all in Switzerland, where privacy matters." I know Switzerland isn't in the EU, but I suspect not all their potential customers know that.
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Re:How to intercept all Wire voice and video calls by trizinix on Friday January 20, 2017 @01:23PM (#13445754)
Is it really based in Switzerland? If you look at the jobs page, they are all in Berlin. My guess would be registred in Switzerland, based in Germany and Data stored in Irland.
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