Six months after its entry into force, the Agreement Swift, for the transfer between Europe and the U.S. banking data for counterterrorism, is widely criticized. Almost unanimously, the European officials, meeting in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs have denounced the lack of transparency of the device.
"As MPs, we feel betrayed by this report," he told the elected German Alexander Alvaro, after presenting a progress report, Wednesday, March 16. The U.S. requests are "too general and too abstract," says Claude Moraes, MEP UK Alliance of Liberals and Democrats. In a document from the beginning of March (.
Pdf), the Joint Supervisory Body of Europol, which studied four cases of American demands, explained that "some of the data protection requirements have been met," in the framework of the Swift. Requested by Tech News Buzz. en, the European Commission noted that the report "considered only some of the safeguards agreement [Swift], in isolation," and "does not give an overview of how the works Agreement ".
THE DIFFICULT MANAGEMENT TOOL ANTI-TERRORISM Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, Swift, a Belgian company and global provider of interbank services, cooperate with the U.S. Treasury Department to help freeze the movements of terrorist funds suspected. According to the European Parliament, Swift, which handles transactions 8,000 institutions and banks in 200 countries, owns 80% of this market, and holds 15 million transactions per day.
For years, U.S. authorities have had access to European transactions without seeking their advice to the Europeans. After a standoff between Parliament and the European Commission between February and June 2010, an agreement, amended to address concerns about data protection has finally been voted by MEPs, and entered into force in August.
The majority of MPs had considered sufficient safeguards proposed by the Commission, in exchange for sending sensitive data to U.S. authorities. Under the agreement, including Europol, the criminal police of the European Union, which is responsible for checking the data sent to the U.S.
Treasury. However, the JSB Europol "has found that claims of the United States were too general and too abstract to allow a proper assessment of the need to transfer data requested. Despite this, Europol has approved every request received. "The supervisor concedes in his paper, part of which is confidential, Europol" had had little time to prepare for new tasks "imposed by the agreement.
LACK OF WARRANTIES Sophie In't Veld, Dutch Liberal MEP, contacted by Tech Buzz News. com, is also concerned that other safeguards are not in an advanced stage. "The problem could easily be solved with the establishment, on the European soil, a system equivalent to the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program American ", which enables the direct anti-terrorism research in Europe.
MEPs last few returns on a third element of the monitoring device, creating a Independent Representative of the European Union within the U.S. Treasury, responsible for checking what happens to the data. "The European Commission has engaged a person, but his identity remains confidential, and we are not possible to measure whether this measure is satisfactory, "said Ms In't Veld." While the agreement stipulates that a European citizen can request a correction of these data, I asked for six months protection agencies of privacy - in vain - whether data had been sent for me, "testifies News Tech Buzz.
com MEP Alexander Alvaro. "Beyond the agreement Swift, is the relationship of trust, not only between Europe and the United States, but especially between the European institutions that are at stake," said Sophie In't Veld MEP . "Especially since the agreement on the issues of airline passengers traveling to the U.S.
(Passenger Name Record or PNR) is also being renegotiated," she recalls. 
"As MPs, we feel betrayed by this report," he told the elected German Alexander Alvaro, after presenting a progress report, Wednesday, March 16. The U.S. requests are "too general and too abstract," says Claude Moraes, MEP UK Alliance of Liberals and Democrats. In a document from the beginning of March (.
Pdf), the Joint Supervisory Body of Europol, which studied four cases of American demands, explained that "some of the data protection requirements have been met," in the framework of the Swift. Requested by Tech News Buzz. en, the European Commission noted that the report "considered only some of the safeguards agreement [Swift], in isolation," and "does not give an overview of how the works Agreement ".
THE DIFFICULT MANAGEMENT TOOL ANTI-TERRORISM Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, Swift, a Belgian company and global provider of interbank services, cooperate with the U.S. Treasury Department to help freeze the movements of terrorist funds suspected. According to the European Parliament, Swift, which handles transactions 8,000 institutions and banks in 200 countries, owns 80% of this market, and holds 15 million transactions per day.
For years, U.S. authorities have had access to European transactions without seeking their advice to the Europeans. After a standoff between Parliament and the European Commission between February and June 2010, an agreement, amended to address concerns about data protection has finally been voted by MEPs, and entered into force in August.
The majority of MPs had considered sufficient safeguards proposed by the Commission, in exchange for sending sensitive data to U.S. authorities. Under the agreement, including Europol, the criminal police of the European Union, which is responsible for checking the data sent to the U.S.
Treasury. However, the JSB Europol "has found that claims of the United States were too general and too abstract to allow a proper assessment of the need to transfer data requested. Despite this, Europol has approved every request received. "The supervisor concedes in his paper, part of which is confidential, Europol" had had little time to prepare for new tasks "imposed by the agreement.
LACK OF WARRANTIES Sophie In't Veld, Dutch Liberal MEP, contacted by Tech Buzz News. com, is also concerned that other safeguards are not in an advanced stage. "The problem could easily be solved with the establishment, on the European soil, a system equivalent to the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program American ", which enables the direct anti-terrorism research in Europe.
MEPs last few returns on a third element of the monitoring device, creating a Independent Representative of the European Union within the U.S. Treasury, responsible for checking what happens to the data. "The European Commission has engaged a person, but his identity remains confidential, and we are not possible to measure whether this measure is satisfactory, "said Ms In't Veld." While the agreement stipulates that a European citizen can request a correction of these data, I asked for six months protection agencies of privacy - in vain - whether data had been sent for me, "testifies News Tech Buzz.
com MEP Alexander Alvaro. "Beyond the agreement Swift, is the relationship of trust, not only between Europe and the United States, but especially between the European institutions that are at stake," said Sophie In't Veld MEP . "Especially since the agreement on the issues of airline passengers traveling to the U.S.
(Passenger Name Record or PNR) is also being renegotiated," she recalls.
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