Posted on 06/28/2006 8:37:20 AM PDT by hipaatwo
Rights unit challenges U.S. over bank data By Dan Bilefsky International Herald Tribune
Published: June 27, 2006 BRUSSELS A human rights group in London said Tuesday that it had lodged complaints in 32 countries against a banking consortium in Brussels, contending that it violated European and Asian data protection rules by providing the United States with confidential information about international money transfers.
Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, said the organization filed the complaints with the data protection authorities with the aim of halting what it called "illegal transfers" of private information to the United States by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, or Swift.
The complaints were filed in the 25 EU countries, Australia, Canada, Iceland, Lichtenstein, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland and the Chinese territory of Hong Kong.
"Swift appears to have violated data protection rules in Europe," Davies said, "by making these transfers without the consent of the individuals involved and without the approval of European judicial or administrative authorities. The scale of the operation, involving millions of records, places this disclosure in the realm of a fishing exercise rather than a legally authorized investigation."
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I called J.D. Hayworths office just now and told them about this. Hope he says something about it when he puts up the resolution today to condem the Slimes.
Now does it demonstrate Treason? Uh? Well does it?
Funny how these groups have stayed silent all these years as banking transactions were scrutinized for illegal money laundering from the illegal drug trade.
What unbelievable crap. They're intent on getting us all killed. SOB's
I just called Peter King's office and told them about this also. This will make him scream more.
From the article:
He said Swift could face fines or an order to halt the transfers if it was found guilty of breaching laws in countries where the complaints have been filed.
European leaders and civil liberties groups across Europe are concerned that Washington has ignored human rights in the fight against terrorism.
Ya' might not want to make any big deposits the Monday after the Super Bowl either if you catch my drift.
Well, there goes the "no harm, no foul" argument.
This is such a common sense measure that it's thoroughly understandable that some leftist "rights" group would condemn it.
But I 'm glad you called JD Hayworth's office; thank you for your activism, Hipaatwo.
I have to leave in a few minutes for a lunch but will look for updates on this when I return.
Exactly..
What I can't get out of my mind is that NO ONE elected Bill Keller or Pinch. If some hot shot lib Congressman exposed this I'd be furious- but they'd have to face their constituents. These guys just DECIDE for the country...
So now we are seeing the real reason why the Slimes published the story.
What if the Rosenbergs decided to publish the plans for the A-Bomb in the NYT instead of giving them directly to the Russians?
This is precisely what the NY Slimes wanted - they know they may not win with the American public but they can certainly mobilize Euro-twits and "human rights groups" etc. to go crazy, which serves their purposes quite well. Yet another example of how the NY Slimes does not have American interests at heart.........
it's illegal, over there
over there
over there
it's illegal
over there
oh,
the Yanks are commin'
the Yanks are commin'
cause
it's illegal
over there
"So..when the Times published this- did it not DAWN on them that this would be the EXACT reaction? Of course everyone in Europe etc is now going to have to scramble to cover their political butts...regardless of their behind-the-scenes cooperation before..."
But, but...Bill Keller told us that the government had raised this point with him, and he decided that there was nothing to worry about - that he had never seen anything like that and this was a weak, half-hearted argument.
So far nothing has happened to the scum bags.
Yes, well....
So much for insulated, intellectual theorism..
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