Privacy...

US Law enforcement agencies have been accused of monitoring international data and money transfers, to interrupt 'Terrorist' activities. A recent report found that the company Swift, a software company which handles eleven million transactions a day, has made information available to the US Treasury Department. Swift is based in Belgium, which makes such actions illegal, since the making available of confidential data is against Belgian and European privacy laws. Swift has nearly 8.000 costumers of which most are great financial institutes, the company claims that it did not break any laws because, the data made available was limited in scope and the data was exclusively for terrorism investigators. That the action taken by the company was legally defend-able and 'right', further it insists that the confidentiality of the costumers was not broken.
This issue ties in with the long standing dispute between the EU and US over the making available of information to the US Government. The EU repeatedly stated that the making available of confidential information could not be tolerated since that would infringe upon the rights of the individual, while the US wants this information because it would allow a more effective hunt of the 'terrorists'. The US further states that the making available of the information would be something necessary while the EU opposes that view and states that the rights of the individual can not and do not have to be sacrificed in the 'War on Terrorism'.

P.S. You can not fight an idea, with weapons and violence, it only leads to more bloody conflicts...

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