SWIFT
MEPs veto US Access to Bank Data - the Guardian: LINK ¤ the GUARDIAN
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- "the European Parliament voted against the Swift agreement"
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- "allowing the United States to search European personal banking data"
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- "the European Parliament defied intense pressure from Washington and ditched an extensive data-sharing programme"
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- "enabling the United States to track millions of European personal financial transactions"
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- "an overwhelming majority of MEPs in Strasbourg voted to ban the Swift agreement"
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- "which has been operating on a provisional basis"
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- "enabling the US to comb millions of personal banking transfers and transactions"
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- "the MEPs voted down the US-EU pact by almost 2-1 - 378 to 196 votes"
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- "mainly on grounds of privacy and civil liberties"
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- "senior MEPs argued that the interim deal with the US was inadequate and blamed politicians on both sides of the Atlantic for agreeing to a flawed arrangement"
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- "if the US administration would propose to the US Congress something equivalent to this - to transfer in bulk bank data of American citizens to a foreign power"
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- "we all know what the US Congress would say"
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- "Washington had applied intense pressure on the parliament to agree to the pact"
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- "the parliament veto applies to data from Swift - the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications"
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- "which is based outside Brussels and co-ordinates millions of financial transfers and transactions every day on behalf of thousands of banks"
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United States - US cable - 2007: LINK ¤ 07BRUSSELS253_________________________________________
- "US treasury assistant James Freis, and Michael Jacobson"
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- "met with the European Commission, the Council Secretariat and key member states in Brussels"
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- "SWIFT [bank data transactions] raises a number of data protection issues"
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- "SWIFT violates the Belgian data protection directive"
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- "because they did not notify the data protection authorities"
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- "that they were mirroring their European database to the US"
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- "the US is a country that has not been deemed"
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- "to have adequate data protection"
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- ""informed consent" (as a way of complying with the EU data protection directive) would not work"
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- "because there is no alternative to SWIFT to make payments"
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- "the US responded"
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- "that the SWIFT data is in the US"
European Parliament - US cable - 2009: LINK ¤ 09BRUSSELS1283
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- "the spokesman for the Socialist and Democrat Group Claude Moraes"
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- "called SWIFT a testing ground for getting the balance right"
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- "between the EU's cooperation with the United States"
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- "and protecting our fundamental rights"
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- "if US legal standards continue to apply on EU soil for the processing of EU data"
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- "how can we guarantee respect for EU standards ?"
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- "regarding procedural rights and the protection of personal data ?"
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- "to which judge can an EU citizen or an EU enterprise go ?"
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- Dutch MEP Sophia in't Veld: "the reason for the EU Council's failure to consult national parliaments about its negotiating mandate"
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- "was the wish by EU governments to gain access to data"
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- "of EU citizens via the American government"
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- "German Green MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht called upon the Swedish Presidency to halt the negotiations"
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- "until it could guarantee respect of the rights of citizens and parliaments"
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- "the cow-trading with bank data"
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- "without binding protection mechanisms"
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- "equals the clearance sale of the data protection rights of European citizens"
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- "and makes all citizens suspects from the outset"
EU Parliament's Veto - US cable - 2010: LINK ¤ 10BRUSSELS120
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- "the European Parliament is likely to veto"
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- "SWIFT [bank data transactions] next week"
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- "members of the European Parliament do not feel that they know enough"
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- "to make a judgment"
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- "on whether the program justifies"
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- "compromises of EU data protection standards"
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Passenger Name Recognition - US cable - 2006: LINK ¤ 06BERLIN3173
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- "the US seeks a different kind of PNR agreement [passenger data sharing]"
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- "based on general principles"
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- "not a list of detailed "dos and don'ts""
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- "which envision the sharing of data"
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- "and less on the data privacy rules"
Brüssel verzichtet auf eigene Kontrolle von Bankdaten - Financial Times: LINK ¤ FINANCIAL TIMES
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- "das umstrittene Swift-Abkommen wird doch nicht durch eine vorherige Analyse von Kontodaten in der EU abgefedert"
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- "europäische Bankdaten werden auch künftig ungefiltert an die USA übermittelt"
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- "das Europaparlament hatte den Vertrag 2010 vor allem aus Sorge um den Datenschutz zunächst platzen lassen"
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- "erst nachdem eine Passage über die Einführung des europäischen Systems durchgesetzt worden war, stimmte eine Mehrheit der Parlamentarier zu"
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- "das europäische Analysesystem sollte dafür sorgen, dass die Daten zunächst in Europa untersucht werden"
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- "so sollten Daten gezielter"
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- "und nicht mehr in so großem Umfang an die USA geliefert werden"
SWIFT - Wikipedia EN: LINK ¤ SWIFT
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- "the "society for worldwide interbank financial telecommunication" is a network to send and receive information about financial transactions - worldwide"
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