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Monday, July 24, 2006
Australian Privacy Foundation calls for inquiry into US SWIFT monitoring
The call to arms for a look at what the US Government has been doing in monitoring international banking transactions by the bank SWIFT cooperative rolls on: the Australian Privacy Foundation has written to the Federal Privacy Commissioner asking for an urgent inquiry ("SWIFT disclosures of Australians' financial information without warrant to the USA") and authorities in Germany are also now investigating.
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