With “some of the world’s toughest privacy laws,” “an unusually large number of hackers and security experts” and “a deep appreciation for privacy among the German people,” Germany is seeing entrepreneurs in the wake of the Snowden revelations looking to privacy-focused business models, reports Forbes. Germany is now home to start-ups ZenGuard, an encryption service; Blippex, a search engine “built with user privacy in mind,” and Arriver, “a social navigation tool developed on the principle of neutrality.” State-level business support is available to these start-ups through innovation funding programs, and Arriver CEO Felix Langhof says, “The privacy relevance is only just beginning to dawn on all of us.”
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