US Reneges On SWIFT Agreement

Windrip writes "It seems the US is not living up to its end of the bargain when it comes to the SWIFT data agreement. When the agreement was signed last year, every EU citizen was guaranteed the right to know if the American authorities had retrieved their banking information, and which authorities had requested the information. Now one European Parliamentarian, Alexander Alvaro says that, once again, the Americans are not honoring their treaties."

Comments

Re:I'm an American...

[Alex Belits]

Usually people don't hate on average American folk

I do, and I live in US.
Best of Americans are tolerable, best of the best are even genuinely good, however average ones are nothing short of horrible.

Re:I'm an American...

[Brett Buck]

Usually people don't hate on average American folk (outside of jest at least), so much as they do the people in power, be it senators or CEOs.

        I think we are on the same page there. The government is the problem, not the solution.

Although the fact that things like the tea party exist, and there is more than one person that likes ayn rand's books, and GWB got voted in twice, and Reagan is the most beloved president in history... those all make that a lot harder ;-)

        And there we deviate. You don't have a clue about the Tea Party if you read about it on any media outlet. If you don't care for Reagan, you understand *nothing* about America - nothing. Or you genuinely *don't* like America.