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EU-USA: EDPS opinion on the role of the European Central Bank in the SWIFT case

01 February 2007

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EDPS opinion (pdf) concerning the transfers of personal data from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication ("SWIFT"), a Belgian based cooperative active in the processing of financial messages, to the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury. SWIFT sides with US in data spat with EU (Register, link)


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