Doesn't much matter, all mobile devices worth using are constantly sending their data up to "the cloud", which, thanks to the USA PATRIOT Act's provisions for National Security Letters (NSLs), the federal government can access at any time, in real-time, without a warrant or even post-hoc judicial review.
The time has come to leave America. No state law can change this. The fourth has been dead for TEN YEARS next month, it is nothing short of naïve now to believe that it will get any better.
There are lots of nice places to live in the first world where the government hasn't gone totally insane. Move there.
Say what you say is true, where would you recommend? We can then discuss specifics of those countries. (On a less serious note, you don't have the Silicon Valley there, wherever there is.)
Norway is great for data privacy, however as you say, there isn't a Silicon Valley or anything similar, even in Oslo. There are some good tech groups, and some good university groups spread around, a good amount of design and media organizations, and a much larger percentage of the population know what Twitter and Facebook are and use smartphones, and youth are basically acquainted with most 4chan memes. The biggest and most notorious tech group really is Opera, which also accounts for a significant chunk of the country's data traffic (Opera also operates a very huge proxy service for mobile devices).
Despite what I'd consider to be a fairly (in U.S. terms) progressive government organization that is pro-privacy, Norway has recently enacted its own local version of the E.U. Data Retention Directive.
Personally, I'd recommend almost anywhere in the first world over America presently.
I chose Berlin for a variety of reasons, but there are many places worth living. I'd say there are roughly a dozen that spring to mind, any of which would be acceptable for starting a business.
The time has come to leave America. No state law can change this. The fourth has been dead for TEN YEARS next month, it is nothing short of naïve now to believe that it will get any better.
There are lots of nice places to live in the first world where the government hasn't gone totally insane. Move there.