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[privacy] EU Banks to Inform Clients that Personal Data Could be Given to U.S. A uthorities
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:28:09 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The Malta Independent Online. [snip] An EU working party looking into the SWIFT US financial transaction privacy scandal has found that all European banks using the SWIFT service must inform clients that US authorities could be given access to their personal, banking and financial data as a result. The so called "Article 29 Working Party" also found that any European bank using the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) for financial transactions also shares culpability, to varying degrees, for the wide-scale compromising of personal data and banking details. Belgium-based SWIFT is a worldwide financial messaging service that facilitates international money transfers. Millions of European banking transaction records, including Maltese, on the SWIFT database were found to have been secretly passed over earlier this year to US intelligence agencies specifically the US Treasury Department (UST) and the Central Intelligence Agency since 2001. [snip] More: http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=42551 - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.1 (Build 1557) wj8DBQFFadyvq1pz9mNUZTMRAtOYAKCRPQtrlImJB6NAdbEAxdc+u8FYpwCfet3b pvJAlVtTf/gWDXjkQlVXsHY= =kjK8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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