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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10194
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha

French data protection authority for Swift II

Brussels, 03/08/2010 (Agence Europe) - After the German data protection authority, it is now the turn of the French data protection authority, the CNIL, to express scepticism regarding the new Swift agreement on the transfer of banking data to the United States for the purposes of counter terrorism. Although the agreement took effect on 1 August, and despite the additional guarantees made, the CNIL is dubious about the effectiveness of measures taken and considers that there are still...