Now Angela Merkel will learn what PRISM is.
I tend to think she already knew of the existence of PRISM its all just pretending just like she pretended how furious she was when she learned that the NSA is tapping her phone.
And we all know that her government is in bed with the usa gov
http://rt.com/news/us-drones-germany-ramstein-625/Germany is very big about being against surveillance. Hitler "watched" germany's citizens very closely prior to him taking away the rights of Jews and was able to do so because he was already watching everyone.
I would agree about german experience in this area. Stasi, for example, was one of the best intelligence services in the world. In fact, sometimes it was even more competent than KGB.
So as a result the Germans often feel that surveillance will eventually lead to the stripping of the rights of it's citizens.