MEPs vote to suspend US data sharing

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24652419

MEPs vote to suspend US data sharing

The European Parliament has voted to suspend the sharing of financial data with the US, following allegations that citizens' data was spied on.

The allegation forms part of leaked documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The vote is non-binding but illustrates MEPs' growing unease over how much data was shared with the US.

It comes a day after it was alleged that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone calls were monitored.

The European Parliament voted to suspend its Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) agreement with the US, in response to the alleged tapping of EU citizens' bank data held by the Belgian company SWIFT.

The agreement granted the US authorities access to bank data for terror-related investigations but leaked documents made public by whistleblower Edward Snowden allege that the global bank transfer network was the target of wider US surveillance.

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[Mysturji]

Ah, but the US hasn't agreed to this, so they have only voted to suspend VOLUNTARILY sharing this data.

[cronus]

Ah, but the US hasn't agreed to this, so they have only voted to suspend VOLUNTARILY sharing this data.

The US knows everything. They even know my phone bill. Actually that's about all the information I've online that is interesting. The rest is word of mouth and postage stamps.

[JimC]

Uncle Sam is like that creepy Santa...

He knows who's been good or bad...