"Deutsche Telekom’s Answer For Germans Spooked by NSA Spooks", 29 January 2015, Wall Street Journal, Friedrich Geiger

...The steps are part of a series of privacy-protection measures Deutsche Telekom has introduced since large-scale wiretapping by intelligence agencies became public. The documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractorEdward Snowden in 2013 about surveillance of Internet traffic and phone calls have touched on and magnified privacy concerns in Germany and other countries. Others in Germany are also capitalizing on the demand for increased data protection.Vodafone this week launched an encrypted voice call application for its corporate clients in Germany. Deutsche Post, Germany’s former state monopoly, last year released an encrypted messaging service. Startups like Hamburg-based Protonet are seeing success by developing encrypted, personal cloud hosting servers...