In today’s NZZ Beat Rudin, Bruno Baeriswyl and Claudia Mund, the cantonal data protection commissioners of the cantons of Basel-Stadt, Zurich and Zug, have joined forces under the ambiguous title “The revised data protection law is not a sovereign solution” critical of the draft of the FDPA expressed. They describe the draft of the FDPA as an “extremely complicated set of rules” that is difficult to understand for those affected as well as for companies. According to the authors, the Federal Council could have taken more time and more freedom; the implementation deadline of the Schengen Agreement would have allowed more time and the requirements of European law for adequacy would have allowed more freedom in implementation. The article is freely available here.
A Summary of criticisms of the draft of the FDPA has also written the author of this article in a position paper which here as PDF retrievable is.