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Re:Euro MPs block bank data deal with US by siculars on Thursday February 11, 2010 @01:35PM (#1118343)
This will most certainly be a setback for tracking and disrupting terrorist/rogue state/criminal financing operations. I personally know someone who used to use Swift data (among other financial transaction tracking data) to track "bad-guys" doing very, very bad things. They are out there, they are gaming the system, they are hiding behind loop holes and they do mean us harm.

Hopefully the privacy concerns can be worked out asap.

Re:Euro MPs block bank data deal with US by iujhygfbh on Thursday February 11, 2010 @02:20PM (#1118482)
The problem is when this is used to give eg. Raytheon the details of payments made to a European company for eg a radar system in some 3rd country - which lets them put in an advantageous position to bid for the next bit of work.