The privacy watchdog organisation Privacy International has filed simultaneous complaints with Data Protection and Privacy regulators in 33 countries concerning recent revelations of secret disclosures of millions of records from the banking giant SWIFT to US intelligence agencies. The disclosures, undertaken on the grounds of counter-terrorism, involve the mass transfer of data from the SWIFT centre in Belgium to the US, and possibly direct access by US authorities both to data held within Belgium and data residing in SWIFT centres worldwide. Read the original New York Times story and President Bush’s condemnatory reaction.

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