Differing privacy regimes: a mini poll on mutual EU-US distrust

Paul Schwartz writes for Privacy Perspectives, July 22, 2014

Emotions are still running high in Germany about U.S. global surveillance activities. Indeed, outside the campus of the Goethe University, Frankfurt, I passed pro-Snowden posters stuck on telephone poles. The posters featured a simple suggestion for Germany’s policy in this matter: “Asyl,” that is, an offer of asylum in Germany for Snowden.