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SWIFT and Europe — Crooked Timber
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SWIFT and Europe
by Henry on June 28, 2006
I’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop on this for the last few days, and it finally has. Privacy International has filed complaints with umpteen European and non-European data regulators that SWIFT has illicitly shared European citizens’ financial data with US authorities. This could have some very interesting consequences. Now bear in mind as you read the below analysis that I am not a lawyer. I have, however, spent a lot of time over the last six years working on and writing about privacy issues in the EU-US relationship, so I do have a good grasp of the political issues involved.
The key issue here is whether or not SWIFT (which is a sort of transactional clearing house, based in Belgium) did or didn’t break European law in providing information to US authorities. Cue background explanation of how complicated the implementation of EU privacy law is. European privacy is (with exceptions: see below) governed by the so-called Data Protection Directive, which, like all EU directives is supposed to be implemented in national legislation. There can be, and usually is, some variation in how it is implemented between different member states. Within each EU member state, there are national data protection authorities, which are supposed to monitor implementation and have some sanctioning powers. There’s also a”Working Party” where the national level data protection authorities come together to issue advisory statements on European-level issues. Under certain circumstances involving non-EU countries, the European Commission can intervene. In short: the usual European Union mess of overlapping jurisdictions. This has become even more messy thanks to a ruling by the European Court of Justice last month in a case taken by the European Parliament against the Council (i.e. the member stat"
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