PI launched a campaign against the illegal actions of SWIFT

Privacy International (PI) has launched a campaign against the illegal actions of SWIFT in its transfer of financial transactional data to the U.S. Government. This campaign will be launched in 33 countries.

Privacy International allege that the activity was undertaken without regard to legal process under European Data Protection law, and that the disclosures were made without any legal basis or authority whatever. The scale of the operation, involving millions of records, places this disclosure in the realm of a fishing exercise rather than legally authorised investigation.

The general complaint text can be seen at Privacy International.org.