Like Americans, citizens of Germany have concerns for where they work, play, shop, with their private information.

from http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8117

“PGP Corporation announced the results from The Ponemon Institute’s third annual study on encryption usage in the enterprise - The 2009 Annual Study: German Enterprise Encryption Trends.

This year’s study surveyed 490 IT and security practitioners, 27 percent of whom hold positions at managerial level or higher, and identifies the trends in enterprise encryption planning strategies, budgeting and spending, deployment methodologies and impact on data breach incidents.

The fundamental conclusion on the basis of study participants’ responses is that data protection is a significant problem in Germany. Fifty-three

percent of all companies and organisations suffered at least one instance of data loss during the past twelve months, representing an increase of

over 55 percent on the figure for 2008 (34 percent).”