The CIA is monitoring personal bank data of Irish citizens, according to the Irish Times. As Digital Rights Ireland points out, there is no legal basis for this information to be given to the US, no judicial authorisation, and no control over what use is made of the information. It’s not just Ireland, of course.

It has emerged that several central banks across Europe knew that the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (Swift) has been providing infomation to the US Authorities. (Irish Times)

And then there is the US itself, as the New York Times revealed recently.

Digital Rights Ireland has set up links through which you can protest about this.

See also antoin@eire.com