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Swift Swift
It has taken a while but after a few lawsuits, and changing legistlation on both sides, now finally some control mechanisms are put back into place. While most large companies are always taking actions...
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One-sided bankdata exchange?
It has been again a little while, but the story is the same: this Monday The EU Council is set to give US intelligence services full access to SWIFT banking data, despite an unanimous call by the...
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Swift role still a mess?
Sir, Regarding ‘EU, US re-assess SWIFT data-sharing deal‘: The statements made by the spokespersons of SWIFT are very worrying. They originally said that servers have been moved to Switzerland and the...
View ArticleSWIFT bank database Still handed over to US
The European Parliament has adopted the so-called SWIFT agreement on 8 July 2010 allowing sharing EU citizens’ bank data with the US authorities, but failing to stick to its initial position on...
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Swift and the new eu transparancy
We mentioned before that the whole swift deal is an unbalanced, privacy depriving monster. Then we shortly mentioned that the eu suddenly, just as the dutch government thinks good governance is...
View ArticleSwift and bank stability
According to Lichtblau’s Bush’s Law, the swift database appears to track even more information than tax havens would ever collect. The routing instructions that the company used to move money around...
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Swift blocked but correctly? NO
European lawmakers have approved a resolution that calls for US anti-terrorism investigators to be denied access to the global banking database, SWIFT. The decision followed revelations about American...
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Europol in US Control, pardon me?
Europol – Europol is the European Union’s law enforcement agency whose main goal is to help achieve a safer Europe for the benefit of all EU citizens. We do this by assisting the European Union’s...
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