Privacy Czar Ponders SWIFT Action

This week, Privacy International, a British-based human-rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog of government and corporate surveillance and privacy invasions, filed complaints with data-protection and privacy regulators in 33 countries, including Canada. The complaints follow revelations in The New York Times that Washington, in its post-Sept. 11 anti-terrorism campaign, was operating a secret program in which U.S. officials and the Central Intelligence Agency gathered international banking data from an organization known by its acronym SWIFT. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060628.wstan0628/BNStory/National/home [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on June 29, 2006]

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