CRYPTO ANARCHISTS FLOCK TO BERLIN TO ESCAPE THE NSA

With its strict privacy laws, Germany is the refuge of choice for those hounded by the security services, The Guardian reports.
Laura Poitras, the director of Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour, just released in cinemas, moved to Berlin to escape the attentions of the US security services. She chose Germany because of its privacy laws, and Berlin because of all the groups doing anti-surveillance work there. She says:
‘There is just a very real historical awareness of how information can be used against people in really dangerous ways here. There is a sensitivity to it which just doesn’t exist elsewhere. And not just because of the Stasi, the former East German secret police, but also the Nazi era.’

This post was published at Crypto Coins News on November 10, 2014.