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| EU Committee Says No To Bank Data Sharing
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| from the over-here-we-still-have-privacy dept.
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| posted by kdawson on Saturday February 06, @14:46 (Privacy)
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/1836221/EU-Committee-Says-No-To-Bank-Data-Sharing
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krupert writes to let us know that the civil liberties committee of the
European Parliament has [0]voted to revoke the data-sharing arrangement
by which US intelligence agencies have access to EU banking data via the
SWIFT system. The US has threatened to withhold cooperation on terrorist
intelligence if the bank data deal now in place is canceled, which it
will be next week if the full European Parliament votes in line with the
committee's recommendation. US intelligence agencies [1]clandestinely
tapped the SWIFT interbank clearing data from just after 9/11 until 2006,
when the secret arrangement was made public. After that, Belgium-based
SWIFT pulled their servers from the US and set up shop in Brussels, and
the US had to [2]negotiate with the EU to keep tapping the data.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/02/06/1836221
Links:
0. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5220092,00.html
1.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/06/06/24/045200/US-Secretly-Tapping-Bank-Databases
2.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/150234/EU-About-To-Grant-US-Unlimited-Access-To-Banking-Data
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