This is absolute nonsense. I would prefer most of Europe over Switzerland. The swiss government was always bad with privacy. See Fichenaffäre for example. Not to mention the new büpf and similar laws. I’m swiss. I would never store sensitive data in Switzerland on a public server. Well. Except taxdata, I guess. Can’t really get around that.

Because, while Switzerland is not part of the EU, it follows many of its regulations. Maybe even most of them.

In this particular case, I happen to know that the inofficial rule is indeed to have burner phones for travel into the us in some cases. But you’re never supposed to have unencrypted data on your phone or laptop in any case.