Banks unleash paper tigers over terror data probe
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'We've written some letters' British banks have responded to European privacy watchdogs, who claim they broke the law by letting US anti-terror investigators have access to the details of their customers' international financial transactions.â¦
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The British government on Monday took the unusual step of denying it had leaked details relating to a police corruption probe that has seen gagging orders sought or threatened against the media.
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Privacy chiefs impose deadline Privacy chiefs have given Europe's banks a September deadline for alerting customers that their financial transactions could be tracked by US security agencies. Customers must be warned that even transactions within Europe could be monitored, they said.â¦
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HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is to press private banks to hand over details of their offshore accounts.
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Experts are concerned that data may not being properly protected by the IRS and that a massive data loss by the agency, similar to the one last month by the U.K.'s Revenue and Customs office, could disrupt the nation's banking system.
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Some of nation's the largest banks were customers of a Florida firm shut down this year for pretexting, or lying, to get personal information such as phone records, the same practice that Hewlett-Packard Co. executives will testify to Congress about today.
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British security agencies have been in talks with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation over plans for a global database of major criminals and suspected terrorists, a police spokesman told AFP Tuesday.
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Two of Germany&#39;s biggest banks became the latest victims of phishing attacks last week as internationally organized criminal groups roam the globe seeking new targets, according to a spokesman at Postbank.
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ECB tries to pass the buck Privacy authorities are holding the European Central Bank (ECB) to account for its failure to protect European interests from an invasion of privacy when US agents were searching for terrorist financiers.â¦
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Member countries would be free to build databaseses on travellers as part of anti-terrorism measures.
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The information commissioner on Wednesday hit out at a number of banks and government departments for &quot;horrifying&quot; breaches of the country&#39;s data protection rules.
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Banks may be taking cards  from reliable customers and giving them instead to riskier ones, an MP fears.
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FBI investigations using telecommunications companies' records of terrorism suspects have gone farther than previously acknowledged, including information on phone call and e-mail patterns of the suspects' associates, The New York Times reported in Sunday editions.
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Financial institutions are asking law enforcement and regulators to share more data to better combat fraud.
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Some of the nation's largest banks were customers of a Florida firm shut down this year for pretexting, or lying, to get personal information such as phone records, the same practice that Hewlett-Packard Co. executives will testify to Congress about today.
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The Bank of England froze the assets of 19 people early Friday, naming them as people arrested Thursday in connection with an alleged terror plot to bomb British passenger jets.
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A report by an EU panel released Thursday said the bank data transfer agency SWIFT broke European privacy laws by handing over personal data to U.S. authorities for use in anti-terror investigations.