Intelligence Act: more security, less privacy?

Give the secret services more powers to fight terrorism. This is the aim of the new intelligence law on which the Swiss vote on September 27. Telephone tapping, computer espionage and even the installation of microphones in private places. For the referendums, these expanded means violate individual freedoms. They denounce a return to the snooping state. At a time when terrorism has hit our neighbors hard in recent months, do we have to choose between security and freedom?