[privacy] US vs EU

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

from: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/25/eu_vs_us_snooping/

A trans-Atlantic dispute over US snooping on international financial
transactions is turning into a full-blown test of legal authority,
with US security interests on the one side and European privacy
guardians on the other.

The Europeans believe this could also be as much a test for
international business as international law, with Swift, the Belgian
firm that has been caught in the middle, feared to be just the first
case of many in which a firm has had its privacy trounced by zealous
US anti-terrorist investigators.

The test is whether European law has competence over US claims to data
held by European firms.

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Go EU!!!

-JP
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