The quiet truth of professional secrecy: it runs on Gmail.
Ask a doctor how a physiotherapy referral reaches them. Ask a lawyer where the client file goes. The honest answer, most of the time, is Gmail — and for the quick message, WhatsApp. Not HIN. Not a secure channel. The patient's name, the diagnosis, the case: on servers in California, every day, by people who do their work well and simply had no bearable alternative.
It isn't negligence. It's a trap.
The compliant tool was so painful you went back to Gmail.
Switzerland gave the professions one compliant option, and made it heavy enough that most quietly abandoned it for something that actually lets them work. The requirement was right. The ergonomics punished whoever obeyed it. So obedience lost — and a daily, silent breach of professional secrecy (Art. 321 of the Swiss Criminal Code) and of the FADP became normal. The real culprit isn't the professional. It's the divorce between rigour and usability. One tool was correct and unbearable; the other is effortless and protects nothing. Nobody was ever offered both.
The compliant channel
Correct. Heavy. Quietly abandoned — obedience punished.
Gmail / WhatsApp
Effortless. Protects nothing. A daily silent breach (Art. 321 CP, FADP).
Compliance, without the punishment.
That's the whole point of OxiMail for the professions: the rigour of a secure channel, with the simplicity of the tool you already use. Your people work the way they worked yesterday — the same inbox, the same gestures.
The convenient path stops being the non-compliant one. You no longer have to choose between doing your job and obeying the law — and you no longer rely on everyone, every day, choosing the careful option over the easy one.
They don't feel a difference. Their lawyer does.
For the professions bound by secrecy.
Sovereign mail, calendar, files and a secure channel for client and patient exchange, run for you by a trusted local partner, in your jurisdiction.
- Lawyers
- Notaries
- Fiduciaries
- Medical practices
- Therapy practices
- Dentists
- Veterinarians
- …anyone held to confidentiality