The SWIFT Affair

• मुख्य लेखक: Johannes Köppel (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Graduate Institute Publications 2011
• विषय: privacy protection; terrorism; money laundering; conflict security and peacebuilding; banking secrecy; Swiss banking; finance
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The story broke in 2006: Since 9/11, US intelligence services have had access to practically any international money transfer data by infiltrating the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) network. Banks worldwide transfer money orders and personal customer data through...