Totally one-sided
If this is so useful and harmless and cuddly, why do European firms not have similar access to the transactions made by their US rivals?
The European Parliament has passed SWIFT II - the renewed treaty giving the United States access to financial information in order to investigate terrorism. The previous version of the treaty was rejected in February. Changes included a promise to phase out mass transfers of data. Instead Europol will work to filter US …
If that was actually the case, methinks an Al-Quaida-dominated government would actually refuse to hand over financial details to an enemy state.
So, by virtue of consequence, said professional moron is just spouting bollocks as usual. But of course, it's an American radio, so no intelligence is required.
Once again the EU bends over and surrenders to the U.S. of A. It is high time E.U. stood up to this world bully. If the U.S. wants to search data, the EU can do it on their behalf and hand over the screened data.
But no, down with EU citizens privacy, and hand over everything and 'trust' the U.S. who even breaches their Constitution and spies on their citizens.
can anyone recall when the last time any promise by 'authorities' was actually kept? i can't.
if anyone thinks that said data won't be mined/searched using automated systems, then they're living in la la land.
i think these witch.. erm, i mean terrorist hunters have been helping themselves to whatever data they like (that they possibly can), and trawling/cross-referencing it with their automated terrorist hunter super computer 'surveillance' systems. now they just trying to make as much of it as legal as possible.
"no, we compiled this information by manually reading through all the data, specifically to find these items, honest!! look, here's some cctv footage of a poor bloke sifting through some data, see?" LOL
shame on europe for caving in to naive and silly american DEMANDS (who do they think they are?)
americans can't even deal with people flying planes into their buildings on their own soil, so what good are BILLLIONS of financial records going to do?
unless they got army army of autistic people to go thru all that data, it will not stop any terrorist attacks..
the REAL problem is american sending money to israel. THIS is the financial trail that needs to be shut! if zionists stop killing arabs, then maybe islamic extremists might stop trying to kill us.
simple cause & effect. very simple.