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European Parliament rejects plans to hand bank details to the US

By Mark Pack | Tue 16th February 2010 - 5:52 pm

Sharing of bank records with the US started in 2001 in an effort to tackle terrorism. However, the European Parliament has rejected new proposed agreement after heated criticisms that too much private information could be handed over without good reason.

The Register reported:

The European Parliament has rejected a proposed interim agreement on SWIFT – under which the US gets access to European bank transactions…

Rapporteur Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert from the Netherlands said the Council had not been tough enough on data protection and rules in the interim agreement on data protection were not proportionate to the security supposedly provided.

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Posted in Europe / International | Also tagged european parliament, sarah ludford and terrorism | 4 Comments

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