Police just rubber-stamping US data slurp Members of the European Parliament have condemned the first six months of data sharing with US terror spooks as an abject failure of data protection. The SWIFT agreement gives US authorities access to Europeans' banking information, but MEPs were told that in the first six months of operation data requests were so abstract it …
"Europol said it had received extra information orally from US spooks, which persuaded them to hand over the information."
Probably on the lines of: we know where you live, we know where your kids go to school and we know about that 1000 quid. Is that enough extra information for you?
Under the guise of being 'Friends' the US has stolen all sorts of tech and information from us in the past. They have even used the excuse of 'National Security" to ride roughshod over other people's security, national laws, international laws etc. etc.
They are Facebook 'Friends' and nothing more.
"The MEPs said Europol's rubber stamping of data requests was a betrayal of promises made last year."
What? You really BELIEVE ANTHING an English politician says? If you do, you are an Ass.
The issue shouldn't be reffered anywhere. The persons responsible for sending this info wants hauled up and prosecuted, and the US told to piss off. Who the Fk do they think they are. Maybe a legal case is needed to be brought against ALL those involved in this, USA and UK.
USELESS ENGLISH TWATS will let the yanks have anything.
I wonder who has killed more Americans: foreign terrorists or domestic terrorists + the Bush family? It's probably not the option politicians would like to heard.
Given the US support for the IRA back in the day we should assume they continue to mess with on-shore terrorism in the UK and demand data to "eliminate their citizens from our enquiries"
I realized that the fight to keep private data out of the hands of U.S. security agencies was lost when I recently renewed by British passport from Canada. All British passport renewal forms from Canada now have to be sent to Washington DC. Yes, they are ostensibly sent to the British embassy in Washington, but do you really think that they are not all intercepted and copied?
No need to laboriously copy them - they probably get that data in nice comfy files from british lack-of-intelligence anyway as part of the "special relation" (which translates as getting some crumbs from what ECHELON picks up in Menwith Hill).
Alternatively it'll be left on some USB stick in public transport..
Okay, so inform Europol that all their phone conversations will be recorded and all their offices bugged. Discussing work outside the office, or on a private cellphone, is of course grounds for instant dismissal and (optionally) prosecution.
Either that or tell the Americans that "extra information orally" will not be accepted under any circumstances. No paper trail = no information.
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