Privacy International Alleges Data Protection Law Violations by Banking Consortium
A human rights group in London said today that it had lodged formal complaints in 32 countries against the Brussels-based banking consortium known as Swift, 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 in the hope of halting what it called "illegal transfers" of private information by Swift, whose full name is the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications.
Group Tries to Block Program Giving Data to U.S., International Herald Tribune, June 27, 2006.
