WHEN WE GET BEHIND CLOSED DOORS (via Lisa Fleischman):

Rights unit challenges U.S. over bank data (Dan Bilefsky, JUNE 28, 2006, International Herald Tribune)

A human rights group in London said Tuesday that it had lodged complaints in 32 countries against a banking consortium in Brussels, contending that it violated European and Asian data protection rules by providing the United States with confidential information about international money transfers.

Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, said the organization filed the complaints with the data protection authorities with the aim of halting what it called "illegal transfers" of private information to the United States by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, or Swift.

Privacy isn't a human right, it's where they're violated.

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 30, 2006 12:00 AM