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SWIFT, which is a Belgian co-op. I'm actually kind of surprised that this rhetoric hasn't been picked up by the Fox News crowd yet. "A group of Belgian communi

• hxcan11 3y ago
  > SWIFT, which is a Belgian co-op. That is exactly the point. The U.S. snoops on European data: https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/spying-on-terrorist-cash-flows-eu-to-allow-us-access-to-bank-transaction-data-a-663846.html https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/spying-on-terror... As part of the war on terror, American intelligence services have been monitoring European bank transactions since 2001. When the EU found out about it in 2006, they were outraged. But now it looks like the bloc will agree to a controversial deal that will allow the covert data transfer to continue.