Europe?s Home Affairs Commissioner said on Wednesday that she would be keeping a close eye on data-sharing deals with the U.S.
On the same day that she announced that the European Commission would not suspend the E.U.-U.S. safe harbor data privacy agreement, Commissioner Cecilia Malmstr�m presented reviews of two other transatlantic data sharing deals?the Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP) and the Passenger Name Record (PNR).
The TFTP agreement allows the U.S. Treasury to access some data stored in Europe by international bank transfer network Swift. However, allegations of possible U.S. access to Swift financial data outside the scope of the TFTP agreement enraged politicians last month.
Documents leaked by former National Security Administration contractor Edward Snowden and reported by The Washington Post indicate the NSA spied on Swift. The company is included in an NSA training manual for new agents on how to target private computer networks, according to the documents.
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