https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror...acking_Program
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The Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) is a United States government program to access the SWIFT transaction database revealed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times in June 2006. It was part of the Bush administration's War on Terrorism. After the covert action was disclosed, the so-called SWIFT-agreement was negotiated between the United States and the European Union as the legal basis. The Belgian company SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) establishes common standards and handles worldwide financial transactions.
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this shit is going on for years now - the US demands all kind of data (or just takes it if they feel like it), now it's going the other way round