SWITZERLAND Law and Practice Contributed by: Lukas Morscher, Lukas Staub and Jil Eichenberger, Lenz & Staehelin
civil law, addressing issues such as defamation, privacy breaches and unauthorised use of per - sonal data. Recent enforcement actions illustrate the legal framework’s reach. In 2020, the Federal Supreme Court ruled that users could be held criminally liable for sharing or liking defamatory or hateful content on social media. In September 2024, the Zurich Commercial Court rejected FIFA’s claim against Google for alleged personality rights violations, ruling that the offending content only appeared in search results when users entered specific terms, linking the issue to user behav - iour rather than Google’s indexing practices.
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