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http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/news/docs/PR_Swift_Affair_23_11_06_en.pdf
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2006_hr/071106levey.pdf
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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/11/european_privacy_czars_seek_to.php
"European Privacy Czars Seek to Stop Terror Finance Monitoring"
By Jonathan Winer
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The data protection authorities of the European Union have long cast a hostile eye on counter-terrorist initiatives undertaken by the US, and previously worked to invalidate an agreement between the U.S. and the EU on data sharing of passengers bound for the United States, which in national security terms, should be a no-brainer.
Now, the body representing all of the EU's privacy czars, known as the Article 29 Committee, has unanimously reached the opinion, issued November 23, that U.S. access to the SWIFT payments system, which is based in Brussels, constitutes what the Commitee terms a "serious breach" of the EU's Data Protection Directive, which protects the privacy and security of all personal data in the EU against disclosure, except with the consent of the data subject, or unless certain other exceptions apply."
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