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EU-Brussels: European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee to hold a hearing on 4 October into the SWIFT scandal

01 September 2006

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The interception of bank transfer data from the SWIFT system by US secret services:

Programme of hearing (pdf)

Poster (pdf)

Opinion of the Belgium Commission de la protection de la privee (summary in English, pdf) which finds the transfer contrary to Belgian and EU law

Full Opinion in French (pdf)

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