EU threatens to suspend data-sharing with U.S. over spy reports

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EU threatens to suspend data-sharing with U.S. over spy reports

By Adrian Croft
BRUSSELS | Fri Jul 5, 2013 7:03pm EDT

(Reuters) - The European Union is threatening to suspend two agreements granting the United States access to European financial and travel data unless Washington shows it is respecting EU rules on data privacy, EU officials said on Friday.

The threat reflects European disquiet about allegations that the United States has engaged in widespread eavesdropping on European Internet users as well as spying on the EU.

Cecilia Malmstrom, the EU's home affairs commissioner, wrote to two senior U.S. officials on Thursday to voice European concerns over implementation of the two agreements, both struck in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks and regarded by Washington as important tools in the fight against terrorism.

The Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP) provides the U.S. Treasury with data stored in Europe on international financial transfers. The Passenger Name Record agreement covers data provided by passengers when booking tickets and checking in for flights. All such information is passed to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Here's another fine mess you've gotten us into, blammo!

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Why aren't all these foreign potential minions of the anointed messiah refusing to be zombies for owebuma, just like the ones domestically ?