[privacy] Judge Denies Arizona AG's Request for Western Union Data

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via AZCentral.com (props, Pogo Was Right).

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A Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled that the Arizona Attorney
General's Office may not force Western Union and two affiliates to turn
over electronic data on wires transfers made to and from Nevada and Sonora,
Mexico.

The Attorney General's Office wants the data to look for trends and money
flows that will help them spot drug and human smugglers who use the
companies' wire transfer services.

But in a ruling published Friday, Judge Kenneth Fields said that the
request was overly broad, especially considering the amount of personal
data of innocent people that would be turned over. The request, he wrote,
was "unreasonable" because for the most part it was "without connection to
a specific criminal investigation." He also said the Attorney General's
Office had no jurisdiction to gather information on business conducted in
Mexico and Nevada without an Arizona link.

The Attorney General's Office wanted Western Union to turn over the
information on a regular basis. Western Union's attorney, Steven Wheeless
said that was like "trying to force Western Union to be a subsidiary of the
AG's Office, and Judge Fields said, 'no.' "

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More:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0519westernunion-ON.html

- - ferg

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