CIA alleged illegal transfer of bank data to track terrorists

According to the British "Guardian" reported that the U.S. government authorized a British bank transaction data to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) secret plans may be suspected of violating British and European law.

Members of the committee responsible for the implementation of the data protection act are investigating the secret project. This project will be the world's banks to transfer computer data to the Central Intelligence Agency to track the funding of Islamic Jihad terrorists.

The US government has admitted that the agency has been engaged in this activity. They got international financial transactions from their partners in belgium. The partner is responsible for providing financial services to banks around the world. This project has been started since the terrorist attacks of 9 / 11.

Each year, the world's inter - Bank Financial Telecommunications Association transmits data to the CIA, which contains more than 4 million 600 thousand detailed data on UK bank transactions.

A spokesman for the Commission told the guardian that they were "serious" about privacy issues. If the central intelligence agency can obtain personal financial data belonging to European citizens, then it is in violation of the EU data protection law".

The spokesman also said that if the CIA's data, including the Bank of England trading information, then they are also suspected of violating the data protection law in the United kingdom. The committee is asking the world's Inter Bank Financial Telecommunications Association and the Belgian authorities to provide more information on how to resolve the matter.

The Bank of England is one of the ten core banks of the world bank's society of telecommunications. They revealed that they had informed the government of the project as early as 2002. "When we learned about it, we informed the British treasury." Peter Rogers of Bank of England. "We also told the world's Inter Bank Financial Telecommunications Association that they had to negotiate with the government. We didn't take part in it. It's all about national security, not just the financial sector. This is the world's inter - Bank Financial Telecommunications Association and the British government."

Gordon Brown, Britain's chancellor, said in a written response to a congressional inquiry last month that the British government was aware of the existence of the project. The chancellor shall not be quoted "to comment on some specific security problems of" government policy, refused to answer whether they take measures to "protect the own financial transaction information has become the United Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications part of the British anti-terrorism investigation of the privacy of citizens". Gordon also refused to judge whether the project of the World Bank Financial Telecommunications Association was "in line with" the legal requirements of article eighth of the EU bill of rights".

Vincent Cable, a spokesman for the Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom, who spoke to them, said: "the answer to Mr Gordon's feeble defence shows that the Treasury secretary is seeking asylum from the country's security. I don't want to ask sensitive security information about a personal case, but I'd like to confirm that the cooperation with the U.S. government is legal."

A spokesman for the interior ministry said the government had "no reason to believe that the partnership was illegal."". He added: "the plan strongly supports efforts by the United States to find, disrupt, and cut funding sources for funding terrorism." The spokesman declined to comment on the comments made by members of the information committee that the scheme was illegal.

The United States Treasury for terrorism and financial crime affairs minister Stuart Levi said that in accordance with the laws of the United States, the legal basis to obtain information from the society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication "is very clear".

The Treasury Department later admitted that at least one search was "inappropriate", raising concerns about the possibility of abuse of the project. "The man who did the inappropriate search is no longer working in the project team." A spokesman said.

The world bank 's inter - Bank Financial Telecommunications Association said in a statement that they were required to do so under a legal subpoena. "Our fundamental principle has always been to protect the confidentiality of our users' data, and to comply with the legal obligations of the countries in which we operate." The statement said. (