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diff --git a/template/financial-news/2013-09-15.inc b/template/financial-news/2013-09-15.inc new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2f13aec2 --- /dev/null +++ b/template/financial-news/2013-09-15.inc @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ + <h3>15-9-2013: NSA follows the Money</h3> + <p>Despite the EU allowing the NSA access to financial transaction data to + track terrorists and organized crime, the NSA saw it necessary to + target international payment processors including SWIFT and Visa. + As terrorism and organized crime are covered by legal means, industrial + espionage to improve the US economy is the only remaining US national + interest within the NSA's mandate that would explain this illegal activity.<br> + With Taler, exchanges will only learn the value of a merchant's transactions, + not who paid or for what (governments may learn what was sold). Thus, + the Taler exchange is a significantly less interesting target for industrial + espionage. + </p> + <p><a class="btn btn-info" href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/spiegel-exclusive-nsa-spies-on-international-bank-transactions-a-922276.html" role="button">Source</a></p> |