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MEPs Vote To Suspend Data Sharing With US

Posted by timothy on from the how's-that-for-gratitude? dept.

New submitter mrspoonsi writes with this news, excerpted from the BBC: "The European Parliament has voted to suspend the sharing of financial data with the U.S., following allegations that citizens' data was spied on....The European Parliament voted to suspend its Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) agreement with the US, in response to the alleged tapping of EU citizens' bank data held by the Belgian company SWIFT. The agreement granted the U.S. authorities access to bank data for terror-related investigations but leaked documents made public by whistleblower Edward Snowden allege that the global bank transfer network was the target of wider U.S. surveillance."

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  1. So, let the USA ... by PPH · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... cut off the reciprocal data sharing agreements with EU authorities. The ones where their intelligence agencies can hoover up all financial data from any US organization associated with any EU citizen.

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  2. Re:Not hugely suprising by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 3, Funny

    TFTP is not one-sided, it actually is an ACK'd protocol.

    maybe EU should give the US the BOOTP, then. (but even that is not one-sided, exactly).

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  3. Re:Next up. by coinreturn · · Score: 4, Funny

    How long before we hear calls to declare the whole EU as terrorist sympathisers? As more of this comes out, I hope others join the EU and we start looking at a embargo on sharing information with the US until it learns.

    I think Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News are already doing that.