The whole clarification they wrote was "As a Swiss company, they must comply with Swiss law when it relates to a Swiss citizen."
So if you're not a swiss citizen, you've got nothing to worry about. The only thing they did different was notify the person they were being investigated and then began tracking. That's the major difference.
It's not like some random company can just skirt all laws globally for the sake of privacy.
If the swiss have a vested interest in pursuing a french person for a specific reason, the Swiss can and will exert that power. No clue why HN for some reason thinks a tech company can just skirt the law here for the sake of some crusade of 100% privacy. Newsflash, it doesn't exist.
So if you're not a swiss citizen, you've got nothing to worry about. The only thing they did different was notify the person they were being investigated and then began tracking. That's the major difference.
It's not like some random company can just skirt all laws globally for the sake of privacy.