“European politicians are to debate the purported tapping by the US National Security Agency of bank-to-bank payments messages sent over the SWIFT network.
Leaked papers released last week by whistleblower Edward Snowden alleged that the NSA tapped in to credit card and bank-to-bank transactions crossing the Visa and SWIFT networks as part of its global intelligence gathering operations.
Both Visa and SWIFT have denied the claims, saying they are not aware of any unauthorised intrusion into their networks.”
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