A review of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Terrorist Finance Tracking Program conducted by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board revealed how often the program was used by European authorities, The Wall Street Journal reports. PCLOB found 40% of the searches made by the Treasury department were on behalf of EU member states or the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation. PCLOB Chairman Adam Klein said in a statement about 80,000 leads were shared with the EU from January 2016 to November 2018.
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