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This paper discusses the proposed European terrorist finance tracking system (TFTS), based on the US Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP). After stressing the impact of the US TFTP on international relations, the paper looks at the practice of collecting mass intelligence by monitoring large-scale databases and transnational communication. The author then emphasizes what he sees as the fundamental paradox of transatlantic security matters: Europe criticizing American ‘dataveillance' practices and then imitating them.