http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/german-government-cuts-out-apple-over-nsa-spying.html/

The German government is phasing out its use of *Apple’s* (NASDAQ:AAPL 
<http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stock-research/company/?qs=AAPL>) iPhones 
as part of a new secure communications initiative 
<http://rt.com/news/german-politicians-encrypted-phones-132/>, reports 
/RT/. The program is being implemented in response to reports that the 
NSA may have been intercepting Chancellor Angela Merkel’s communications 
since 2002.

According to 
<http://rt.com/news/german-politicians-encrypted-phones-132/> the 
Russia-based news site, both of Germany’s two main political parties 
have recently agreed on new guidelines that are designed to prevent 
government officials’ communications from being monitored. Germany’s 
BSI, or Bonn Federal Office for Information Security, has been tasked 
with the responsibility of approving software that will be used to 
protect phones used for government communications.

German government officials will be forbidden to use iPhones under the 
new security guidelines, because the unnamed encryption software is 
incompatible with Apple’s devices. “Our conversations and communication 
structure have to be safer,” stated a German government report 
<http://rt.com/news/german-politicians-encrypted-phones-132/> in 
response to the NSA spying allegations.