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Until recently, SWIFT had its data servers on U.S. soil, giving American authorities the jurisdiction they needed to access them. But at the end last year, the servers covering European wire transfers were moved to Switzerland and the Netherlands, forcing the U.S. to seek European consent to continue sifting through SWIFT's database of some 8,000 banks. The U.S. says the information, which includes customer names, account numbers and amounts transferred, is needed to root out the various terrorist organizations that move funds around the world. In 2003, officials say the program helped Thai authorities capture Riduan Isamuddin, also...
...keep yourself off Please Rob Me and, more important, keep your home out of the police blotter? A little foresight goes a long way. Sites like Foursquare and its competitors don't post your location unless you give it to them, nor is it posted to Twitter without your consent. It's always up to the user to decide what to post. Are you going to get robbed because you're oversharing? It's unlikely. But if nothing else, Please Rob Me shows that sometimes a little discretion online can go a long...
Wootton is skeptical about Gosling's suggestion that doctors encouraged him to kill. Gosling himself was vague on the details of a supposed pact with his lover. "The issue of consent is a big one, and he wasn't clear on that point," says Wootton. "He mentioned a pact, but he didn't say whether the man asked for help then and there for him to do it." (Read "Going Too Far with Assisted Suicide...
...homes, that Elad claims dates back 2,000 years, and may have been used by Jewish rebels to escape a Roman siege. Civil rights groups last year got the Supreme Court to suspend the diggings. In its ruling, the court said that the local authorities had failed to obtain consent from the owners of the houses marked for demolition...
...made a mistake, she seems to conclude, it's that she was too independent, too capable, and gave her husband too much license. The day after the birth of their fourth son, she had an operation to have her tubes tied. With her consent, he did not accompany her to the hospital, to the consternation of the nursing staff. "I suppose you could say that women are built for sacrifice," she writes...