[privacy] Canada: Privacy Commissioner Launches SWIFT Investigation

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The Office of The Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

[snip]

The Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Jennifer Stoddart, has officially
launched an investigation of the Society for Worldwide Interbank
Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a European-based financial
cooperative that supplies messaging services and interface software to
a large number of financial institutions in more than 200 countries,
including Canada, to determine whether personal information relating to
Canadians’ financial transactions is being improperly disclosed by
SWIFT to foreign authorities.

The Commissioner has notified SWIFT of her intention to launch an
investigation into the matter.

[snip]

More:
http://www.privcom.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2006/nr-c_060814_e.asp

- ferg


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