Snowden's revelations led to more informed and shocked German citizens

Abstract

This study investigates the attitudes towards and social impacts of Edward Snowden's revelations in Germany through a questionnaire survey with German youngsters as part of the worldwide cross-cultural analyses. However due to Snowden's revelations a continuing discussion about privacy, safety, security and data protection was unleashed in Germany. The results show interesting values and settings of young people in Germany. For example: The majority 69.41% of the surveyed persons feel that the usage of the Internet threatens their privacy.