The SWIFT Affair

• Egile nagusia: Johannes Köppel (auth)
• Formatua: Baliabide elektronikoa Liburu kapitulua
• Hizkuntza: ingelesa
• Argitaratua: Graduate Institute Publications 2011
• Gaiak: privacy protection; terrorism; money laundering; conflict security and peacebuilding; banking secrecy; Swiss banking; finance
• Sarrera elektronikoa: 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...