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"Parliament stresses that any data-sharing agreement with the US must be based on a consistent legal data protection framework, offering legally-binding standards on purpose limitation, data minimisation, information, access, correction, erasure and redress," the resolution reads.
The TFTP was set up in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks to give US investigators access to data from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT). According to prolific whistleblower Snowden, Uncle Sam's spies pwned the SWIFT system, as well as those of other financial providers including Visa, and is busy slurping up credit card records and other information on selected targets.
In the wake of these allegations, the parliament voted by 280 to 254 (with 30 abstentions) to suspend the TFTP until a "full on-site technical investigation" of the hacking claims has been carried out by Europol's Cybercrime Centre.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/24/european_parliament_votes_to_suspend_datasharing_with_us/
BelgianMadCow
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(34,845 posts)...then came to the heart-wrenching conclusion that he needed to abandon country, fiance and family and flee to Russia.
Sure, this is a kerfuffle and the EU has the right to be pissed about it.
But this was never part of Snowden's schtick. He was more concerned about the NSA 'watching our thoughts form as we type'. If this was part of what drove him to flee to Russia, why did he never mention it? It's only being mentioned now because he handed over thousands of unread documents to journalists and they are the ones who took the time to read and analyze them.
Still, I don't see how the U.K. can decide the U.S. can never spy on them any more than the U.S. can do the same. There is too much information-sharing already between the two countries. And the Internet makes the data that much more congested and intermixed.
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